Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg<\/a>\u2019s office, 56-year-old Jose Rodriguez admitted his guilt in the 2024 deadly shooting in New York County Supreme Court on charges of murder, attempted murder, burglary, and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\nCourt documents show that Rodriguez traveled to his ex-girlfriend\u2019s Jefferson Houses apartment near East 112th Street and 3rd Avenue at around 3 a.m. on April 10 of that year with ill intent. He burst into the home that morning and instantly began arguing with his estranged girlfriend.<\/p>\n
Hearing the commotion and his aunt\u2019s pleas demanding that Rodriguez leave, 19-year-old Ramon Alvarez tried to intervene and protect his loved one. Rodriguez brandished a firearm and shot Alvarez in the abdomen before turning the gun on his ex and opening fire, grazing her shoulder.<\/p>\n
While his aunt survived, Alvarez died at Harlem Hospital following emergency surgery.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cRamon Alvarez was brutally murdered while trying to protect his aunt from her ex-boyfriend,\u201d Bragg said. \u201cJose Rodriguez fatally shot Mr. Alvarez, then shot at his ex-girlfriend, who thankfully survived but had to witness the murder of her courageous nephew. With this plea, Rodriguez has been held accountable for his actions, which devastated this family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police arrested Rodriguez in the Bronx the next day. At his arraignment, prosecutors said he had texted the grief-stricken aunt following the shooting, blaming her.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know it\u2019s all your fault,\u201d he wrote.\n<\/p>\n
Rodriguez is expected to be sentenced on Dec. 15 and is expected to face 18 years behind bars in state prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Photo by Dean Moses The man who fatally shot his ex-lover\u2019s teen nephew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[72710,82907,138956,138957,138958,75,84,83,259,9,24,63,2973],"class_list":["post-378317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-district-attorney-alvin-bragg","tag-guilty-plea","tag-harlem-murder","tag-jefferson-houses","tag-jose-rodriguez","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378317","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=378317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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