{"id":107047,"date":"2026-02-06T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107047\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:02:07","slug":"bensalem-man-admits-to-2024-fatal-shooting-outside-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107047\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem man admits to 2024 fatal shooting outside apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Bensalem man will spend at least five years in state prison, then faces deportation after a fistfight turned fatal outside a Bensalem apartment complex nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n

In a court appearance Feb. 5, Abel Mendoza-Ramirez admitted he shot and killed Jose Miguel Tenorio-Ruiz, 40, who also lived at the Bucks Meadows apartments in July 2024.<\/p>\n

Bucks County Common Pleas Judge Charissa Liller accepted Mendoza-Ramirez\u2019s plea to third-degree murder, and sentenced him to 6 to 15 years in state prison.<\/p>\n

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A Bensalem resident had admitted to fatally shooting a neighbor in 2024 after a fist fight<\/p>\n

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Liller ordered he could be paroled after serving his minimum, if he has no misconducts while incarcerated.<\/p>\n

The judge also granted Mendoza-Ramirez time served credit since his July 2024 arrest, which reduced the length of his state sentence, and also ordered no contact with the victim\u2019s family or witnesses and a mental health evaluation.<\/p>\n

Under the negotiated plea, the remaining charges against Mendoza-Ramirez were dropped including first-degree murder.<\/p>\n

Bensalem police allege that Mendoza-Ramirez and<\/a>Tenorio-Ruiz, who knew each other,\u00a0 were involved in a fistfight on July 6, 2024 outside the Knights Road complex where they both lived.<\/p>\n

After Mendoza-Ramirez, who police believe lost the fight, retrieved a semi-automatic handgun from the car. He approached Tenorio-Ruiz and the two men argued.<\/p>\n

Mendoza-Ramirez then pulled the gun from his waistband and fired two rounds into the ground near Tenorio-Ruiz, who then attempted to grab the gun away from Mendoza-Ramirez, police said.<\/p>\n

During the struggle the gun fired, striking Tenorio-Ruiz in the torso, fatally wounding him, police said. After shooting the victim, witnesses told police that Mendoza-Ramirez fled the scene in a Ford van, according to the release.<\/p>\n

About an hour later, a Newtown Township police officer stopped the van and took Mendoza-Ramirez\u00a0 into custody, police said.<\/p>\n

After Mendoza-Ramirez is released from state prison, Liller ordered that he be deported to Mexico, since he is in the U.S. without legal status.<\/p>\n

After his arrest, Bensalem police said that Mendoza-Ramirez was detained and incarcerated briefly in 2016 for illegally entering the U.S. but later released; but it is unclear if Mendoza-Ramirez was released in Mexico or the U.S.<\/p>\n

Reporter Jo Ciavaglia can be reached at jciavaglia@gannett.com<\/p>\n

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