{"id":304302,"date":"2026-06-11T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304302\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:29:13","slug":"man-faces-charges-in-2019-reality-tv-car-gurus-murder-for-hire-hit-in-miami-dade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304302\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces charges in 2019 reality TV car guru\u2019s murder-for-hire hit in Miami-Dade"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 30-year-old man faced charges on Thursday in Miami-Dade County over the 2019 murder-for-hire hit of a reality TV<\/a> car customization guru, records show.<\/p>\n

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According to an arrest warrant, a Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office detective reported surveillance videos show Julian Jimenez at the crime scene and his getaway car after the shooting on Aug. 27, 2019, in Kendale Lakes. <\/p>\n

A surveillance video shows Jimenez wearing a mask and gloves and holding a .40 caliber gun, after Alex Vega<\/a> pulled into his home\u2019s driveway along Southwest 118 Avenue, near Killian Parkway, according to the warrant. <\/p>\n

Jimenez, then 23, fired, and deputies found Vega, then 50, suffering from wounds to his back, according to the arrest warrant. Fire rescue personnel took Vega to the Kendall Regional Medical Center, which now operates as HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, records show. <\/p>\n

More than 15 years ago, Vega and Rolando Ramirez had a conflict over debt, according<\/a> to federal prosecutors who worked in a related case. <\/p>\n

Related story: \u2018They are going away forever\u2019: Victim of would-be murder-for-hire plot speaks after guilty verdicts<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2012, Ramirez, the owner of the Doral Collision Center, took over Vega\u2019s Exclusive Motoring Worldwide in Doral as part of a settlement, according to prosecutors. <\/p>\n

Ramirez\u2019s friend Rasheed Ali, a former University of Miami football player, helped to arrange the murder for hire plot in 2018, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Ali, also known as \u201cFresh,\u201d and his friend, Tamrat Mason, better known as reggae artist \u201cShifta,\u201d recruited Jaime Serrano, a \u201cmarijuana distributor\u201d with an outstanding debt, according<\/a> to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 21, 2019, Serrano flew with Jimenez from New York to Miami and rented a 2018 Nissan Rogue from Enterprise Rental Car, according to deputies. <\/p>\n

A few minutes after Vega was wounded on Aug. 27, 2019, surveillance video shows Jimenez walking southbound on Southwest 117 Avenue and \u201ctowards a bus stop that contained a garbage can where the firearm was later located,\u201d according to the warrant. <\/p>\n

Another surveillance video shows the Nissan Rogue, \u201cabout five minutes later, at the Bird Road toll plaza on the northbound Florida Turnpike,\u201d according to the warrant, which didn\u2019t mention how much Jimenez was allegedly paid. <\/p>\n

Related story: FBI agents raid Doral auto shop in connection with plot to kill celebrity car designer<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLaw enforcement located a mask and a pair of gloves,\u201d a deputy wrote, according to the warrant. <\/p>\n

Jimenez, who is from the Bronx, complied with a warrant to provide his DNA to detectives on June 26, 2022, and the MDSO Forensic Services Bureau laboratory analyzed it, according to the warrant. <\/p>\n

Miami-Dade County corrections booked Jimenez shortly before 11:40 p.m. on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records. <\/p>\n

Jimenez had two warrant cases: One was for attempted murder with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit murder with a deadly weapon, and the other was a hold for another agency, records show. <\/p>\n

Read a segment from the warrant<\/p>\n

\"\"Arrest warrant in the Julian Jimenez case \"\"Arrest warrant in the Julian Jimenez case \"\"Arrest warrant in the Julian Jimenez case <\/p>\n

Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report. <\/p>\n

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