Oscar Ramos, 34, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 39.5 years in prison for first degree murder while armed and assault with intent to kill while armed for the May 28, 2015 shooting that killed one and injured another, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Chief Pamela A. Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department.
A jury found Ramos guilty in April of killing 50-year-old Pedro Melendez Alvarado and wounding 56-year-old Miguel A. Rodriguez Carabantes. The two men, both of Alexandria, Virginia, were driving to work together when Ramos shot them from his car on I-295.
Superior Court Judge Maribeth Raffinan ordered Ramos to serve 360 months in prison for the first-degree murder conviction and 114 months in prison for assault with intent to kill.
According to the government’s evidence, Ramos, who is a member of MS-13, was one of three men in a car that was driving on I-295 NB in Southwest, D.C., near exit 1, when the car he was in pulled alongside the victims’ car.
Two men in the defendant’s car then opened fire on Alvarado’s car, striking the victims, and then pulled away. The defendant was charged in 2021 after evidence was developed identifying him as having plotted to kill Alvarado.
The defendant and Alvarado are both from El Salvador. The defendant believed Alvarado was somehow involved in the death of the defendant’s father, years earlier, in El Salvador.
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