A 47 year old man from Mayflower Street was shot inside his home early Sunday morning. The incident happened at around 4:20am. While Mario Ramos was checking on his sick grandbaby - a bullet came flying through his bedroom wall. He felt the burning sensation and that was when he realized he had been shot. He told Monica Bodden what happened.
Mario Ramos - Shot inside house
"About 4:30 Sunday morning, one of my grandchildren was vomiting. What I did pick up my granddaughter and I put my hand down her throat and decide to take out the vomit. After that I put my grandchild back on the bed, while doing that I heard shots started to rang out. When I heard that I ask my wife to check if anyone of the grandchildren got shot because I got shot already. I told her not to make any noise because we don't know if the said person is still around who was shooting."
"After that she alerted my other kids and then the police came but we couldn't find any trace of bullet at all."
Monica Bodden reporting
Mario Ramos was shot in his right hip and the bullet exited through his right thigh. The bullet made entrance through one of his bedroom walls.
Mario Ramos - Shot inside house
"It was targeted. I thought if I wasn't at the front of the bed my wife would have got shot in the back or in the head the way I see how the bullet penetrate through where it would end up if I wasn't there in front of her. I thank the good Lord for such thing."
Monica Bodden
"When you felt the burning, what was your first reaction?"
Mario Ramos - Shot inside house
"I got shot. I told my wife that I got shot and please check the grandchildren if they got shot because it was more than one shot."
Ramos was not the only one who got shot. Today his dog is trying to survive with a bullet inside her body. The little dog was shot somewhere around her neck area - and today the bullet can be seen bulging out from under the dog's flesh.
Mario Ramos - Shot inside house
"A little bit before when I heard the shots rang out I heard my dog started to cry. The next minute I found out that I got shot too. My dog right now has a bullet in her."
Monica Bodden
"And you, the bullet went through where?"
Mario Ramos - Shot inside house
"From the side of my right leg through my buttocks; It went one way and came out the other. I have to say thank the good Lord for such thing. Most of the time when I go to sleep I would pray and try ask the good Lord for forgiveness and to guide us because of the neighborhood that we lived in."
And because of the neighborhood Ramos lives in - he and many other neighbors prefer to sleep on their floors where they believe it is much safer.
Mario Ramos - Shot inside house
"As my friend around the lane told me, he says it's better not to sleep on the bed anymore and start to sleep on the floor. Once you live in this neighborhood sleep on the floor. I took his good advice and I started to sleep on the floor on the mattress."
Monica Bodden
"You think that may have saved you guys?"
Mario Ramos - Shot inside house
"I think that yes me from getting shot, but I think it saved me from being killed too because if I was at that spot sleeping it would have been different."
Police say they are investigating this shooting and another - the last of the very violent weekend. It happened last night at 6:40 on Kraal Road - right across from where Raymond Killa Gentle was murdered two years ago.
19 year old Randy James Harris, was shot to the right hand, 24 year old Deon Gibson, was shot to the left hand and 39 year old Orlando Velasquez, was shot to the left thigh.
All three had been standing in a yard on Kraal Road when a dark complexion male entered and fired several gunshots at them. Vasquez was admitted in a stable condition while Harris and Gibson were treated and released. So to recap the very violent weekend, 10 persons shot and two killed in five separate shootings.
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