Son arrested in Christmas Eve stabbing death of mother in Massapequa home
Nassau County Police Department Det. Capt. Stephen Fitzpatrick announced the charges against 27-year-old Jeremy Emmanuel Lopez Ramirez.
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Nassau police arrested the youngest son of a Massapequa woman who was found stabbed to death on Christmas Eve and charged him with murder.
Nassau County Police Department Det. Capt. Stephen Fitzpatrick announced the charges against 27-year-old Jeremy Emmanuel Lopez Ramirez.
"Jeremy has a violent history of arrests going back to 2018," said Fitzpatrick. Those arrests included assault, criminal possession of a weapon, attempted murder and gang assault.
Police say the found Josefina Ramirez Montero, 57, stabbed to death in a living room apartment at 5714 Old Sunrise Highway in Massapequa.
They say he was staying with his mother at the time of her death. According to Fitzpatrick, Montero had been baking at home on Christmas Eve when her son left to go to laundromat.
"When he came back, he attacked his mother for unknown reasons," he says. "He stabbed her multiple times and is observed discarding the knife outside the premises."
Lopez Ramirez was arrested on Friday in Baldwin. He was arraigned at First District Court and charged with murder in the second-degree. He is being held without bail. He is due back in court on Dec. 30.
Police say there was no previous reports of a domestic violence history inside the home.
Fitzpatrick was asked if Lopez Ramirez had a history of mental illness. He said it wasn’t yet determined but insisted that the suspect knew “right from wrong” based on conversations police have had with him.
"He knows what happened,” said Fitzpatrick.
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