What happened to Julio Ramirez? Suspects arrested in deaths of two men drugged in an NYC gay bar

Jacob Barroso was captured and charged over the passings of Julio Ramirez, 25, and John Umberger, 33, in a New York City gay bar. Ramirez and Umberger were celebrating in Damnation’s Kitchen’s LGBT area in 2022. They were apparently tranquilized and afterward attacked by Jacob and two different men.

As indicated by reports, Julio Ramirez and John Umberger died because of a deadly portion of fentanyl-bound drugs. Police quickly administered the passings crimes and found three suspects, Jacob Barroso, Jayqwan Hamilton, and Robert Demalo.

Demalo and Hamilton were prosecuted last week for the supposed wrongdoings that prompted the passings of Julio and Umberger. The New York Police Division uncovered that the passings are connected with a series of burglaries that have been going on in the region around the gay clubs.

A series of burglaries happened where the guilty parties fundamentally designated a few clubs, remembering different gay bars for Manhattan. At first, specialists believed that the group was focusing on just LGBTQ clubs, in any case, a few straight bars were likewise influenced. They would supposedly tranquilize individuals and loot them in the end. NYPD Criminal investigator Randy Rose affirmed equivalent to well.

One such occurrence wound up killing Julio Ramirez, whose body was found on April 21, 2022, toward the rear of a taxi on the Lower East Side at around 4 am. A comparative episode occurred on May 28, 2022, after John Umberger vanished in the wake of celebrating at The Q New York City. His body was found something like four days after the fact on the fifth floor of the E. 61st Road apartment.

On April 21, 2022, 25-year-old social specialist Julio Ramirez was found dead toward the rear of a taxi at around 4 am. He was seen celebrating at the Ritz Bar and Parlor, situated on West 46th Road. Observation film caught Ramirez leaving the club alongside three men at around 3:17 am neighborhood time.

After finding his body, police couldn’t recuperate his wallet or wireless. A sum of $20,000 was likewise moved out of his record through Venmo and Zelle. Specialists additionally found that Ramirez’s Visas were subsequently used to pay for spa administrations and costly suppers.

Umberger was a political expert from Washington, DC, and disappeared on May 28, 2022. He was clubbing at The Q New York City, a gay club situated at 795 Eighth Road in New York. The Q New York City club is around two streets from the Ritz Bar, where Julio Ramirez was celebrating.

Something like four days after the fact, specialists found Umberger’s body in a condo possessed by moderate lawyer Jay Sekulow’s American Place for Regulation and Equity. It was a similar spot where John Umberger was utilized as the overseer of strategy and political projects.

Arrests are finally being made for the murders of Julio Ramirez and John Umberger, who were drugged, robbed and killed after leaving gay bars in Hell’s Kitchen. Anyone who seeks to target our community should know that they will be held accountable.

— Erik Bottcher (@ebottcher) April 3, 2023

Upon examination, specialists found that the last time his Mastercard was utilized was at the club at 3 am. Around 4 am., he was seen in observation film, where Umberger was likewise joined by three men in a vehicle beyond the Upper East Side loft.

At the point when police found his body, they couldn’t recuperate his charge card or wireless. Nonetheless, that’s what they saw, very much like Julio Ramirez, around $25,000 had been deducted from John’s records through applications like PayPal and Venmo. It’s not simply Umberger and Julio Ramirez; many such cases happened last year close to clubs. Police additionally found that both Umberger and Ramirez died because of fentanyl that was available in the medications they consumed.

On Walk 3, the city clinical inspector affirmed that both died of “intense inebriation” from a blend of fentanyl, cocaine, ethanol, and different medications. The analyst presumed that both Ramirez and Umberger have become casualties of “drug-worked with passings.” Policing guaranteed that the suspects sprang onto the men in two disengaged occurrences, while leaving the separate bars. Numerous comparative occurrences have occurred at a few clubs over a brief timeframe, where individuals would be sedated and looted.