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"Primary aggressor" arrested in Bryan Stow beating

Justin Berton,Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writers

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villariagosa announces the arrest of a suspect in the March 31 beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow at an Opening Day game at Dodger Stadium, during a news conference at the stadium in Los Angeles, Sunday, May 22, 2011. The suspect, whose name was not immediately released, was among several people detained for questioning after police served search warrants.

Police officers this morning raided a Los Angeles apartment and arrested a man considered to be the "primary aggressor" in the March 31 beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow outside Dodger Stadium, officials said.

At an afternoon press conference near the stadium, Police Chief Charlie Beck said investigators learned of the suspect thanks to a tip from his parole agent. After obtaining a search warrant, a SWAT team took Giovanni Ramirez, 31, into custody at 7:10 a.m. at an apartment complex in East Hollywood.

Ramirez was booked into county jail at 4:32 p.m. on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He was being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

Beck said his agency is still looking for a second suspect in the attack as well as a woman seen driving the suspects away from the scene.

"It would be much in your best interest to turn yourself in," Beck said. He said the raid had gone well, but that such operations can be dangerous for suspects.

Beck said the person arrested was "Suspect 1," whose face - as described to a sketch artist - was depicted on police fliers and plastered on billboards around the Los Angeles area. He said more than 20 detectives have worked a total of 6,000 hours on the case, running down more than 630 leads.

Choking back tears, Beck said he got a call after the arrest from Assistant Chief Earl Paysinger, who told him the raid had been successful.

"He said the words I've been waiting to hear for seven weeks," Beck said. "He said we had Bryan's assault suspect in custody."

The tip that led to the arrest came from a parole agent, who noticed that a man he was supervising had added fresh tattoos on his neck - an apparent effort to obscure an older tattoo described by witnesses to the attack, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Stow, a 42-year-old paramedic and father of two from Santa Cruz, has been unconscious since suffering a traumatic brain injury in the attack and remains in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital, where he was moved last Monday.

Doctors are seeking to reduce Stow's anti-seizure medications so they can get a better idea of his condition. The goal is to prepare him for a move to a long-term rehabilitation center.

The Los Angeles Police Department has been publicizing a reward that has climbed to $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of two men who taunted and then attacked Stow in a parking lot after the season-opening game between the Giants and Dodgers. Stow had been wearing Giants apparel and walking with two friends.

Police said the suspects fled in a car driven by a woman who wore a No. 16 Dodgers jersey bearing the name of star outfielder Andre Ethier.

On a website they created to share information about Stow's recovery, his family today thanked supporters. "We would also like to thank LAPD for all their hard work on this case," the family wrote. "We are overwhelmed with many emotions today."

Giants manager Bruce Bochy called the arrest "great news" before his team's game against the Oakland A's today.

"I know it's been hard on the family," Bochy said, "but for them to continue to work as hard as they've been, the police department, to have a suspect in hand, is great news. Hopefully they'll catch everybody involved in this senseless act."

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said he had contacted his counterpart in Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, to express gratitude for the arrest in the Stow case.

"It was good police work and good community work," said Lee, who sent Villaraigosa a thank you via text message and then spoke to him by phone.

The episode has been particularly tragic for Stow and his family, Lee said, but also has been a "dark cloud" hanging over the rival Giants and the Dodgers this season. He said team and political leaders in both cities are unified when it comes to "sending a message that this kind of behavior is just intolerable."

Samantha Tennison, a Santa Cruz paramedic who is one of Stow's co-workers at American Medical Response, said she learned of the arrest in a message from Stow's sister.

"It's bittersweet because it doesn't change what happened to Bryan. He's still in a coma," Tennison said. "But it's good that these guys can't continue to go on and live their lives while Bryan can't. He's going to have justice, and these guys are going to get the long arm of the law."

Tennison said she had been amazed by the aggressiveness of the police investigation and the depth of the public outpouring of support.

"It puts a different stamp on humanity," she said.

The arrest occurred on the second floor of a 3-story, light-brown apartment building in East Hollywood. The neighborhood is rough; a stop sign across the street from the apartments is scarred by three bullet holes, and gang graffiti marks walls and even trees.

Jesus Lizama, 20, who lives directly below the raided apartment, said he was awakened by the sound of trampling boots, a helicopter and a voice on a loudspeaker ordering people out of the apartment.

Lizama said he knew about the Stow case and had seen the billboards around the city, but thought the sketches of the suspects were too vague.

"It could have been anyone around here," said Lizama, who did not know Ramirez. "Damn, if I had known, I'd be into that 200k."

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LA: Suspect In Fan's Beating A Gang Member

Bryan Stow Remains In Critical Condition

By By the CNN Wire Staff
POSTED: 11:43 am EDT May 23, 2011 LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The primary suspect in the brutal beating of a of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodgers Stadium is a documented gang member on parole for a number of convictions, the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday.
Giovanni Ramirez, 31, is associated with the Varrio Nuevo Estrada street gang, one of 34 gangs in a 15-square-mile area east of downtown Los Angeles, said Jose Carrillo, the lead detective in the case.
Ramirez was arrested Sunday and ordered held on $1 million bail.
Ramirez was convicted of attempted robbery in 1998, robbery in 1999 and firing a weapon in public in 2005, Carrillo said. He said Ramirez has been cooperating with authorities while in custody, though he declined to elaborate.
Authorities say he was taken into custody shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday after police served warrants at a home and an apartment building in connection with the assault that led to Bryan Stow, a 42-year-old father of two from Santa Cruz, California, being put into a coma.
Stow was attacked in the stadium parking lot following the first game of the Dodgers' and Giants' seasons on March 31. His mother, Ann Stow, told HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell last week that it "was a random act of violence against somebody who was wearing Giants colors."
Police withheld Ramirez's identity until his booking Sunday evening on an assault with a deadly weapon charge. In addition to Ramirez's arrest in East Hollywood, police seized evidence and detained several others -- all of whom Los Angeles police said they expected to release after they were questioned.
"This investigation is in its very early stages," Police Chief Charlie Beck said Sunday afternoon outside the stadium. "There are at least two other suspects who we are actively looking for."
Stow's assault has galvanized law enforcement and other authorities in Los Angeles. In particular, security has clamped down at the park in the Chavez Ravine section of Los Angeles.
More than 300 billboards -- which advertise "Wanted" and "Attempted Murder at Dodger Stadium" -- have sprung up around the Southern California city, featuring composite sketches of the suspects. Meanwhile, a $250,000 reward -- including money from the Dodgers, ace Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum and others -- was offered for information leading to the beating suspects' arrests.
Beck assigned 20 detectives to work full-time on the case, saying that as of Sunday afternoon, they'd cumulatively worked more than 6,000 hours -- about 1,000 of those hours on overtime.
He added that police had pursued more than 630 leads from the public and law enforcement. That included a tip from a parole officer that Beck said led to Sunday morning's arrest.
"No matter how small or insignificant it may have seemed at the time, each fact was a critical piece," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said of the tips. "And hard work, around the clock, brought us to this (moment) today."
Like Beck, Los Angeles City Council member Ed Reyes urged the two remaining suspects to turn themselves in.
"We're not going to stop," Reyes said. "Let's end this."
Dodgers spokesman Howard Sunkin, reading a statement from owner Frank McCourt, applauded the Los Angeles police force, pledged the team's full commitment to the investigation and promised to make Dodgers Stadium "the safest sports venue in the United States."
Giants President Laurence Baer told CNN affiliate KGO that the arrest was "comforting" for the team and its fans, adding that his best hope is that the incident might spur more civility at sporting events.
"It's been sort of a cloud over the organization," Baer said, adding that he thought that Giants players would probably visit the ailing Stow. "That there's an arrest (and) they can bring someone to justice is ... meaningful."
Stow, a paramedic by training, had gone to the game with friends in celebration of the Giants' World Series victory last season, a relative said.
After the game, two men came up to him in the parking lot and -- unprovoked -- began kicking and punching him while yelling profanities about the Giants, police said.
Ann Stow said her son was first hit from behind, at which point he fell and his head hit the concrete.
"It was just a brutal attack," she said. "Whatever that guy hit my son with, Bryan was unconscious before he hit the ground, so he had no way to protect his head."
The attackers fled in a light-colored sedan driven by a woman with a young boy -- believed to be about 10 years old -- inside, police said.
Stow was taken out of a medically induced coma over a week ago, and has since shown signs of some cognitive function, Los Angeles neurosurgeon Dr. Gabriel Zada said. Stow also has "some movement" in his arms and legs, the doctor said.
He was transferred last week from Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center to San Francisco General and Trauma Center, bringing him closer to his home, Zada said.
Stow has been able to open his eyes in recent days -- a positive sign, said his mother, even though he still can't focus and is not looking around.
His children know about their father's condition, but still haven't seen him in the hospital, Stow's sister, Bonnie Stow, told HLN. The whole family, she said, is pulling for his recovery and hoping that any brain damage is minimal.
"I don't think it's a matter of him surviving," Bonnie Stow said. "It's just a matter of what he'll be, if and when he wakes up."
CNN's Ninette Sosa, Joe Sutton and Stan Wilson contributed to this report. http://www.wcti12.com/sports/27991710/detail.html

Just a heads up. There is a certain pro-illegal Hispanic traitor that has been reading the comments in here about this case and that person is claiming that those who have commented about this case in here are demonizing all Hispanics and/or calling them all illegals. This person is picking out one angry comment in here without taking into consideration all the other comments where no one has done that. It is what the pro-illegal side does. They are outright liars!

They can't stand to admit the fact that Hispanics also commit hate crimes just like any other ethnic group does. So when something like this happens they pull the race/victim card to call attention away from the case. Of course if a white person commits a hate crime against a Hispanic they go ballistic and then all conservative whites become Nazi's, KKKeers, etc. in their eyes. They are hypocrites.

Originally Posted by Oldglory

They can't stand to admit the fact that Hispanics also commit hate crimes just like any other ethnic group does. So when something like this happens they pull the race/victim card to call attention away from the case. Of course if a white person commits a hate crime against a Hispanic they go ballistic and then all conservative whites become Nazi's, KKKeers, etc. in their eyes. They are hypocrites.

Same old double-standard from the same old double-talking hypocrites.

Here Is the coward In custody

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police on Wednesday said they were satisfied with the results of a lineup to determine whether witnesses to the brutal beating of a San Francisco Giants fan could identify the man suspected of leading the attack.

The Los Angeles Police Department said Giovanni Ramirez had participated in a physical identification lineup and that police would be submitting their case to the district attorney's office "at the appropriate time.

Police arrested Ramirez, 31, over the weekend and he remains in custody on a parole hold. They have not identified a second attacker and a woman suspected of driving the pair from the scene of the March 31 attack against Bryan Stow outside Dodger Stadium.

Attorney Anthony Brooklier, who is representing Ramirez, told KCAL-TV Wednesday he believes Los Angeles police have the wrong man.

"I just think it's a mistake," Brooklier said after visiting with Ramirez at the Men's Central Jail.

"He wasn't at the game. I think he's got a tremendous alibi," Brooklier told KCAL. "He is willing to take a police polygraph. I've never had anybody said that to me in almost 40 years that I've been practicing criminal defense."

A parole photograph obtained by The Associated Press bears some similarity to a composite sketch released by police. In the photo, a shaven-headed Ramirez is shown with tattoos on his neck and a small marking under his left eye.

The latest development in the case against Ramirez came a day after Stow's family sued Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, contending the Dodgers were negligent by not providing more security and not having adequate lighting in the parking lot where the incident occurred.

Stow, 42, remains in critical but stable condition under heavy sedation to prevent seizures caused by the traumatic brain injury he suffered in the beating.

Attorney Thomas Girardi, who represents the Stow family in the lawsuit, told KNTV that Barry Bonds had donated money for a college fund for Stow's two young children.



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What a POS!

Stow Beating Suspect Transferred to San Diego Prison


By Scott Weber | Monday, Jun 27, 2011


Giovanni Ramirez, the main suspect in the brutal beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow, has been transferred to a state prison near San Diego to serve out a sentence for a parole violation.

Ramirez was moved to the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility where he will serve a 10 month sentence for a weapons charge unrelated to the Stow case, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.


Stow, a 42-year-old paramedic and father of two, suffered a brain injury and has been in a coma for three months after he was attacked outside of Dodger Stadium March 31.

No charges have been filed in the case. On Friday, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said he was still confident they have the right suspect but admitted there was still much more work to be done before the case can be handed over to the District Attorney.


Ramirez's lawyers maintain their client was nowhere near Dodger Stadium at the time of the attack. Attorney Jose Romero said 11 family members and friends have provided an alibi for Ramirez, saying he was at an aunt's house.

On Wednesday, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital upgraded Stow's condition from critical to serious condition. Stow is now breathing on his own and he is able to intermittently follow some basic commands.

"We are encouraged by Bryan’s progress and heartened that he has improved, not deteriorated," Dr. Geoff Manley said. "For brain injured patients, recovery takes months and years, not days and weeks. We remain optimistic, but we must be extremely cautious about interpreting his progress.


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Two Men Charged in Brutal Beating of Giants Fan

Published July 23, 2011

Giants fan beating

LOS ANGELES – Exonerating one suspect, police charged two other men Friday in the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan outside Dodger Stadium, accusing them of a savage attack that included cutting the victim's tongue and disfiguring his face.

The arrests came two months after an emotional Police Chief Charlie Beck trumpeted the arrest of the initial suspect in the attack on Bryan Stow, a paramedic who suffered a brain injury and remains hospitalized in serious condition.

Giovanni Ramirez, dismissed as a suspect Friday, had been arrested in May but never charged.

"In policing, it's just as important to exonerate the innocent as it is to implicate the guilty," Beck said Friday. "I want to tell the world that Giovanni Ramirez is no longer a suspect in this case."

Prosecutors charged Louie Sanchez, 29, and Marvin Norwood, 30, both of Rialto, with one count each of mayhem, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, and battery with serious bodily injury, all felonies. Both were being held on $500,000 bail after being arrested Thursday.

The complaint alleged both men personally inflicted great bodily injury on Stow, "causing him to become comatose due to brain injury and to suffer paralysis." The mayhem count alleged that they "did cut and disable the tongue, and put out an eye and slit (Stow's) nose, ear and lip."

A message left at a number for the parents of Sanchez was not returned, and contact details for Norwood's family could not be found.

Dorene Sanchez, believed to be the sister of Louie Sanchez, had been arrested on suspicion of being an accessory after the fact then released. She was not charged.

Beck did not provide details on the evidence against the two men but said more details would be released Monday.

"The Los Angeles Police Department never gave up on this case," District Attorney Steve Cooley said in a prepared statement.

Earlier in the day, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing, said police have no forensic evidence against the latest suspects but they had made incriminating statements.

The attack has captured national attention as the Los Angeles Police Department and the Dodgers sought to ease fears about violence at the storied stadium.

Stow, 42, a resident of Santa Cruz and the father of two children, remained hospitalized in San Francisco. His family said in a blog post Friday that he appeared to mouth his last name and might have tried to give a thumbs-up.

On Monday, he underwent emergency surgery for fluid buildup in his head. Doctors have kept him under heavy sedation since the attack to prevent seizures.

Police released no details about the latest arrests in the case until the news conference. The delay came in sharp contrast to the fanfare surrounding the arrest of Ramirez on May 22.

However, the investigation faltered after Ramirez provided almost a dozen statements from friends and family members saying he was nowhere near Dodger Stadium on the night of March 31. Ramirez also volunteered for and passed a polygraph test.

No charges were filed against him in the beating, but he was returned to prison for a parole violation -- having access to a firearm.

Court records show Norwood was sentenced in 2006 to three years' probation and served 118 days in jail after pleading guilty to one felony count of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant.

In 2003, Louie Sanchez pleaded guilty to one felony count of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, and the following year he pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of carrying a loaded firearm in a public place.

Despite those run-ins with the law, neighbors described the men as friendly, baseball-loving fathers.

Neighbor Danyelle Dickson said Louie Sanchez and his family are quiet, friendly people, with whom she had exchanged greetings but had little other contact.

She often saw Sanchez playing catch on the family's lawn with a woman and boy whom she believed to be his wife and son.

"It's just a really nice family, a really quiet family," she said.

Sanchez also was charged Friday with two misdemeanor counts of battery stemming from a separate incident the same day as the beating.

Meanwhile, Soledad Gonzalez, the mother of Ramirez, said she was upset about the arrest of her son in May.

"If you don't have any proof, why did you put the picture of him in public?" she asked at a separate news conference. "That's wrong. There's a big, big mistake that they made."

She said her son would have to decide whether to sue the LAPD.

"We can live with them sending us a letter of apology," said attorney Anthony Brooklier, who represents Ramirez.

Brooklier said attorneys plan to file a writ next week challenging the parole board's decision to keep Ramirez in prison for 10 months after police investigating the beating found a gun in the house where he was staying.

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Gang bangers are only "brave" in a pack.

Bryan Stow attackers indicted on federal weapons charges
By Kate Mather
March 6, 2014, 3:31 p.m.



Marvin Norwood, 30, and Louie Sanchez, 31, pleaded guilty on Feb. 20 in the attack on Giants fan Bryan Stow. The two were indicted by a federal grand jury on a weapons charge. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times / February 20, 2014)

The men who pleaded guilty last month to the brutal Dodger Stadium beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow have been indicted by a federal grand jury on a weapons charge, according to court documents.

According to an indictment filed Wednesday, the grand jury charged Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood, both of Rialto, with one count each of being felons in possession of firearms. If convicted, the men face a maximum of 10 years in federal prison, prosecutors said.

Authorities said they found about a half-dozen weapons — two semiautomatic rifles and a pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun and a revolver — along with nearly 70 rounds of ammunition when they searched Norwood’s home in connection with the Stow assault.

Norwood told police that the guns were not his and that he had allowed Sanchez to store them at his residence. Federal authorities, however, said they determined that the weapons were in the possession of and available to both men.

Court records showed each man had prior convictions: Sanchez for felony evading an officer and misdemeanor domestic violence; Norwood for felony domestic violence.

The men pleaded guilty last month to the unprovoked attack at Dodger Stadium that almost killed Stow nearly three years ago — a crime that led to a temporary drop in Dodger attendance and provoked soul-searching about a sports rivalry gone terribly off base.

Norwood, 33, was sentenced to four years in prison by Judge George G. Lomeli after admitting to assault causing great bodily injury. In exchange, an earlier mayhem charge was dropped. Sanchez, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of mayhem in exchange for eight years in prison. He could have received 11 years in prison if convicted of the original charges.

Stow, 45, a father of two and former paramedic, remains severely impaired. He spent the first two years after the attack in hospitals and rehabilitation facilities and still requires daily care by his family.

Before Lomeli sentenced Norwood and Sanchez last month, Stow’s sister Erin Collins said, “To say you got off easy is an understatement. Because of you both, Bryan’s life was nearly taken from him and he will never be the same. “

Norwood, who is scheduled to be arraigned next week, remains in federal custody. Sanchez is in state custody.

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