NEW YORK, NY – Police in New York City have announced two suspicious death cold cases from 2022 that have been ruled homicides and are now being investigated as such.
According to police, Julio Cesar Ramirez, 25, was found dead in the area of Ludlow and Stanton Street on the Lower East Side on Thursday, April 21, 2022, at approximately 3:45 am.
Police responded to a 911 call, and upon arrival, responding officers encountered an unidentified adult male, unconscious and unresponsive, with no obvious signs of trauma observed.
EMS also responded to the scene and pronounced the aided male deceased at the scene. After examination by the Medical Examiner’s Office, police have ruled the death of Ramirez as a homicide.
The NYPD has also updated a second suspicious death investigation.
John Umberger, 33, was found dead on a bed inside his East 61st Street apartment on June 1, 2022. After receiving the Medical Examiner’s autopsy report, police ruled Umberger’s death a homicide.
The two cases do not appear to be related.
Police have not made any arrests in either case.
Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on Twitter @NYPDTips.