Berea community, Greenville, South Carolina—Greenville County Sheriff Will Lewis on Friday released dash camera video of a deadly shootout that happened in front of a White Horse Road funeral home last month.
During a news conference, Lewis said deputies fired shots after responding to a 911 call on July 14 of an armed man chasing a woman and firing shots at her, Lewis said.
Authorities said the suspect, identified as Ramiro Bravo Ramirez, 34, shot Candy Rosario, 25, as she ran across White Horse Road.
According to Lewis, Ramirez began firing at deputies as soon as they arrived on scene at the parking lot of the Thomas McAfee Funeral Home on 6710 White Horse Road in the Berea community.
Lewis described the incident as a “domestic violence case” and said he didn’t think the shooting could have been prevented. He said the two may have been in a relationship.
“Mr. Ramirez was going to shoot the victim,” Lewis said. “Nothing was going to stop him from doing that. He came to do battle that day.”
Lewis said Ramirez had two magazines and reloaded his gun during the course of the gun fight. Ramirez also used Rosario’s body as a barricade to prevent from being shot, Lewis said.
“‘He came with the intention to kill that woman,” the sheriff said.
A total of nine deputies exchanged fire with Ramirez, Lewis said. The deputies were placed on administrative leave and were reinstated to full duty July 25.
“After an internal investigation was completed through our the Office of Professional Responsibility, it was determined protocols of the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office were met, and there were no policy violations,” Lewis said.
The Coroner’s Office has ruled Ramirez”s death a suicide and not a suicide by police. Ramirez died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the Coroner’s Office said.
Rosario, 25, who survived the initial shooting, died in the hospital about an hour later of a gunshot wound to the head, said Kent Dill, a Greenville County deputy coroner.
Lewis said he released the dash cam video over because it was “all encompassing.” Body camera footage of the shooting, however, would not be released because of its graphic content, Lewis said.
The six-minute video was pulled from a deputy’s in-car camera and shows the entire shootout as it unfolds in front of the funeral home.
The video shows Ramirez firing his gun from behind Rosario, and the hood and of the deputy’s patrol car getting struck. Rosario appears to be alive during the exchange.
As Ramirez reloads his weapon, a deputy on the other side of the funeral home returns fire. Dozens of shots are exchanged over the next 50 seconds until a deputy shouts, “Hold fire!â€
Deputies wearings bulletproof vests then converge on the pair and pull Rosario away from the Ramirez and administer aid to her.
The entire encounter lasts about one minute and 12 seconds. The Greenville News published an edited version of the video Friday afternoon out of respect for Rosario’s family.
During the news conference, Lewis said he called an emergency meeting Thursday with the newly formed Citizen’s Advisory Board to review the footage from video and get feedback.
Lewis said their general reaction was “shock” and “disbelief that a human being could actually do something like that to another on the side of the road.”
The State Law Enforcement Division is still investigating the shooting.
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The irony of this happening in a funeral home parking lot. Smfh
not only did they miss the suspect but they shot the girl more than once in the head. i feel like anyone could become the best sharpshooter in greenville just by showing up. i can just imagine the cops going to their lockers and high fiving thinking they saved the world. if they would have just communicated that there was a hostage then the firing would have been more precise but it seems they are literally trained to spray and pray when they hear gunshots no matter what.
Idiot cops
2:21 guessing a cop shot the lady….
And whose round ended her life?…..
Well, we've narrowed down who will take care of the funeral arrangements.
I wasn't there and didn't have to make a split second life or death decision. From what I saw on the video though I would not have taken that shot and I have been a competitive shooter for years. He also shot through the windshield and way to fast to have any chance of making that shot. I would like to believe I would have made the safety of the hostage priority number one. As Clint Eastwood said "A man's got to know his limitations ".
@2:15–2:17 The woman moves and is still alive- I slowed the video down- this is a tough one-
The suspect gave the police no options and it’s sad to see an innocent woman being used as a human Shield if you will. No positive outcome was going to come out of the situation – the suspect made sure of that. Prayers go out to her family of the unfortunate death Altar daughter sister friend if she was a mother etc. 😞ðŸ™ðŸ¼ðŸ˜¢
They could’ve just threw a grenade
I mean I get it he shooting at you but their is someone who is innocent right next to him u can’t take that risk and let her die by your bullets or it can go both ways but it’s hard to judge
that was not serve and protect.
Meanwhile I can shoot pumpkins at 150 yard with iron sights, but these cops smoked both of them with optics
Yup cops killed that woman, nice try PD. I back the BLUE, but don’t try to be sly and lie to the public, not a good look!
She was still alive at –1:02. She raises her arm/hand to her head.
All these R,s in they're names
So we still letting people convince you that cops are great as they are? No reform or stricter training needed? Maybe an entire community is lying and cops aren't corrupt, and trigger happy. But can we not all agree these guys need more training? That their instincts as cops is incompetent? This is incompetent police work. That woman died because an entire group of boomers are trying to change the conversation because it starts with B
Theres no way the cops did not hit her as well. But we don't know and never will.
She looks pregnant?? And they are the most incompetent police I've ever witnessed!! Her family hopefully got a huge law suit against them for their incompetence!!! Murdered by them fools!!!!
people saying she was dead .. what did the autopsy say ?? did a police round kill her or did he …
Those cops are a piece of s*** how could you shoot that shoot that guy with young lady next tell him they should all go to prison.
ie Mi Hita…..we told you to Stay Away From Vatos Loco's
Justified murder of hostage by cops… unbelieveable.
driver of the squad car who opens fire through his windshield while the car is still moving and the victim in the line of fire needs to be fired, charged and sent to prison.
Bro…. I live there
Now that's how to deport some illegal aliens
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Ok…real talk. The police did NOT handle that right. They kept shooting like both of them had a weapon and the 911 caller CLEARLY said that the male was threatening the female with a women. So how they come in guns blazing I don't understand.
In what way was that "very graphic"?
Damn! The cops made bad call. She was NOT DEAD already like some of you are saying. Near very end, she’s covering her ears because of all the rapid firing from both shooter and cops. The instant the video blurs her out is when you KNOW a cop’s bullet(s) hit her. COPS NEEDED long gun to pop his melon head before going in with “Wild West†shooting. I pretty much see most videos with overwhelming justified shootings. But, what was hurry? If he killed girl, he was going to get sprayed immediately. But, since she’s still alive, she had much larger odds of living with their EXTREMELY rushed decisions.
autopsy could show how many rounds she was hit with were at and by who police or his gun.and what shots were fatal.
Was literally nothing graphic about this video.
Its possible the officer's shot the hostage as they rolled up hot and shooting. But we should open our borders and let everyone in to do battle with our police right. Thats what some idiots think, all for votes. disgusting politicians are to blame and should be prosecuted. Too bad we have no Department of Justice. That department exists to protect the powerful and to punish the public.
Sad thing , he prob was bout out of bullets. Could just let him shoot the cop car cpl more times and just went up and arrested him and saved the girl.
That obviously knew she still was alive. Their main objective should had been to save her life. I seen plenty of videos of cops being shot at and they still took him down without getting shot at. He didnt have like unlimited ammo or anything. They should had taken cover and made a plan.
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I see this video few months ago, on another channel i think and the poor girl was preagnant to,
u can see her belly in video, that s why she stand on the side and not on stomach
The kill her too
The cop arrived shooting you can heard and See the windshield.
You can see the girl moving
You can see the suspect waiving his left hand ass surrendered
why do they covered up 2:21?
I support good cops not criminals and this guys weren't acting right they should been punishment the by law.