{"id":370706,"date":"2026-10-12T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370706\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T02:00:13","slug":"vigil-held-for-nathaly-ramirez-a-mother-killed-after-being-pushed-off-bronx-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370706\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil held for Nathaly Ramirez, a mother killed after being pushed off Bronx balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BAV3178.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"people at a podium with balloons in background\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Vigil held for Nathaly Ramirez, a mother killed after being pushed off Bronx balcony 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A community gathered in the Bronx on Saturday, where a mother was killed after being pushed from a 15th-floor apartment balcony while holding her infant daughter last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jonathan Porter<\/p>\n<p>A heartbroken community gathered in the Bronx on Saturday where a mother was killed after being pushed from a 15th-floor apartment balcony while holding her infant daughter last week.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Family, friends and advocates against domestic violence gathered outside the Allerville Arms apartment building where police say Angel Carrasco pushed his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/ex-boyfriend-arrested-bronx-woman-shoved-balcony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nathaly Ramirez<\/a>, to her death as she held their eight-month-old baby, who survived the horrific fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137874694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/rally-in-bronx.jpg\" alt=\"crowd holding purple balloons\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" title=\"Vigil held for Nathaly Ramirez, a mother killed after being pushed off Bronx balcony 2\"  \/>A community gathered in the Bronx on Saturday, where a mother was killed after being pushed from a 15th-floor apartment balcony while holding her infant daughter last week.\u00a0Photo by Jonathan Portee<\/p>\n<p>Shakia Bennett, a friend of Ramirez\u2019s, was at the remembrance event. She said it was important for the community to hold the event because it raises awareness about domestic violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot. It\u2019s a little overwhelming, because this was our friend,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137874695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/domestic-violence-rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" title=\"Vigil held for Nathaly Ramirez, a mother killed after being pushed off Bronx balcony 3\"  \/>Friends and family shared stories and remembered 23-year-old Nathaly Ramirez.Photo by Jonathan Portee\n<\/p>\n<p>Another attendee named Brianna stressed the importance of knowing the laws surrounding domestic violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And at one point, balloons the color of purple, representing domestic violence awareness, were released into the sky.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Carrasco had been previously arrested for allegedly beating the victim. On Jan. 5, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">police<\/a> said Carrasco slapped Ramirez, leaving her bruised and in pain, the latest, at the time, in a series of domestic violence incidents. In that case, he was charged with assault.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137874698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/BAV3709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" title=\"Vigil held for Nathaly Ramirez, a mother killed after being pushed off Bronx balcony 4\"  \/>Purple balloons, symbolizing domestic violence awareness, were released at the remembrance event.Photo by Jonathan Portee<\/p>\n<p>Carrasco\u00a0faces charges of murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, attempted manslaughter, and assault.<\/p>\n<p>With reporting by Dean Moses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A community gathered in the Bronx on Saturday, where a mother was killed after being pushed from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[136522,128,135895,9,24,63,646,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-370706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-angel-carrasco","tag-bronx","tag-nathaly-ramirez","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-police-and-fire","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}