Eduardo Cruz was beaten to death in Northwest D.C. on Jan. 22. Cruz had reportedly objected after his neighbor, Jose Ramos, was being too loud. Ramos and his friends allegedly reacted to this complaint with a lethal beatdown.
“Cruz was heard asking for forgiveness repeatedly while Ramos and a group of others allegedly insulted him and physically attacked him,” one local outlet reported, citing court documents.
Cruz was found, bloodied and unconscious, a mile away in a parked car, and he soon died.
After Cruz was killed, but before Ramos was arrested for the murder, Ramos was due in court for a totally separate assault in Virginia (his fourth assault charge). Ramos missed that court date on June 15 because he was arrested that morning “carrying 17 bags of cocaine at a 7-Eleven,” according to a news report. He was, according to police, high on cocaine at the time.
The next month, July 2022, the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force found and arrested Ramos for the deadly assault on Cruz.
Ramos was charged in August 2022 but released pending trial, and his attorney said he would reside out of D.C. (In fact, he was residing in the Fairfax County jail.) In October, a D.C. judge reversed his release and issued a bench warrant, ordering Ramos detained pending the homicide trial.
Then in December 2023, pending trial, Ramos was again released, this time to home confinement (in D.C.) with GPS monitoring. These terms were loosened in September 2025.
In early 2026, Ramos appeared in court and rejected a plea deal from prosecutors. That’s when Ramos went missing. His GPS monitor died, and he failed to show up to a May 4 hearing. “Mr. Ramos just completely vanished,” the judge said and issued a bench warrant for Ramos’s arrest.
The U.S. Marshals were sent out to find Ramos.
On May 26, they found him in a park in D.C.’s Mount Pleasant. Ramos gave them a fake name. Neighbors began heckling the police for the arrest, and one neighbor apparently came into the park carrying a bat, provoking an officer to draw his weapon. Video of the incident went viral.
Online liberals railed against the arrest, calling it fascism.
By May 28, local politicians learned that this was not some open-container or immigration arrest, but a bench warrant from a D.C. judge being executed by the Marshals, and that Ramos was a fugitive serial offender wanted for homicide.
Nevertheless, one woman who wants to be mayor of D.C. kept up the liberal hysteria.
Just this week, long after it was public that Ramos was arrested by Marshals because he was a fugitive murder suspect, socialist Democrat Janeese Lewis George used Ramos’ arrest as an argument against stricter law enforcement.
Here’s the relevant back-and-forth between the outlet NOTUS and JLG:
NOTUS: A big issue over the last year has been these teen takeovers in places like Navy Yard and the back-and-forth debate over teen curfew zones. Why have you opposed the use of those zones?
Janeese: “We saw a video a couple days ago where [federal agents] were harassing people in Mount Pleasant. Those were adults, but those could have very easily been young people, and I have to weigh the harm and the benefits.”
In sum: A man was charged with beating a man to death, has been arrested on four other assaults and drug charges, and he also skipped out on his trial and went missing — and Janeese Lewis George thinks it’s a shame he was “harassed.”
Quite the mayor she would be.