Charges are expected Tuesday against a driver who allegedly intentionally plowed into a crowd outside an East Hollywood nightclub after being ejected from the venue, injuring three dozen people.
The crash was reported just before 2 a.m. Saturday in the 4600 block of Santa Monica Boulevard, near Vermont Avenue, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Lyndsey Lantz. The crowd was standing outside The Vermont Hollywood, where a show was taking place.
Seven people were hospitalized in critical condition, six were seriously injured and 10 were in fair condition, Lantz said. Seven people were assessed at the scene and declined hospital transport.
As of Sunday evening, only one patient remained in critical — but stable — condition, and had a broken leg, according to NBC4.
The driver, later identified as 29-year-old Fernando Ramirez, was pulled from the vehicle and shot in the back by an unknown attacker as onlookers set upon him, police said. He was taken into custody, and it later emerged that he has a lengthy criminal history.
The vehicle crashed into a taco stand and a valet stand along the way.
The shooting suspect was described as Hispanic, between 5-feet-6 inches and 5-feet-7 inches tall, and weighing between 150 and 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a blue Dodgers jacket, a light blue jersey with the number “5,” and blue jeans. He has gauges (wide piercings) in both ears and a goatee. He is bald in photos released by police, who earlier described him as possibly armed with a silver revolver.
The Los Angeles Police Department released an updated photo of the suspect on Monday. Police said at least 36 victims had injuries ranging from minor pain to serious fractures and lacerations, that several were struck by the vehicle and some were briefly trapped beneath it.
At least one food cart become lodged beneath Ramirez’s vehicle, police said.
Video from the scene showed firefighters putting red, yellow and green tarps in the street to triage patients, and a heavily dented car with a shattered windshield and broken headlights on the sidewalk in front of the venue.
Multiple ambulances lined the street.
Officers were dispatched to the scene in response to an “assault with deadly weapon” call and upon arrival determined the driver had also suffered a gunshot wound to his lower back.
He was taken to a hospital, and though his condition was not provided, his injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.
The shooting suspect ran from the scene. He was last seen westbound from Vermont Avenue.
Ramirez, meanwhile, was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and force likely to produce great bodily injury. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman scheduled a Tuesday afternoon news conference to announce charges in the case.
LAPD Capt. Ben Fernandes told the Los Angeles Times that Ramirez was kicked out of the nightclub for being disruptive before he crashed into the crowd.
Ramirez, of San Clemente, has a lengthy criminal record in Orange County dating back to 2014.
Ramirez was convicted Oct. 17, 2019, in Orange County of a felony count of battery with serious bodily injury, with a sentencing enhancement for a hate crime and a misdemeanor count of hate crime for sucker-punching a Black Whole Foods employee in Laguna Beach in June 2019, according to court records. But the hate crime count and enhancement were overturned on appeal in January 2021 and then dismissed March 26, 2021.
He was sentenced to six years in prison in January 2020 for the hate crime attack, but after those charges were dismissed he was re-sentenced to four years in prison.
Ramirez is currently charged with domestic battery causing injury with a prior conviction for violence and a misdemeanor count of violating a protective-stay-away order for an alleged attack on a girlfriend in San Juan Capistrano on Jan. 28, 2022, according to court records. That case is still pending, with Ramirez due in court for a pretrial hearing July 30 in the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach.
Ramirez is also awaiting trial for allegedly driving drunk in Fountain Valley on Aug. 12 of last year.
Ramirez pleaded guilty in December 2021 to a misdemeanor count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and two counts of resisting arrest on Sept. 11, 2021. Prosecutors said in court papers that he resisted arrest after he grabbed a woman by the hair and slammed her into a three-foot-tall cinder block.
Ramirez also pleaded guilty in December 2021 to a misdemeanor count of corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant on Aug. 24, 2021.
Ramirez pleaded guilty to corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant and child abuse, both misdemeanors, in June of 2018. He pleaded guilty to felony counts of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and gang-related battery in December 2014.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting was urged to call the LAPD’s Rampart Community Police Station at 213-484-3424. Callers who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.
Such a long bunch of shit for nothing to ever be done to the dead man that was driving the car!
MalcolmX & Martin Luther King’s Murder.
And what really gets me is I’ve told you many times that George Randolph John Crow Senior had Malcolm X in handcuffs when George’s son John Randolph Crow Jr walked in the door with the loaded gun and blow away Malcolm X’s head away while he was in his father’s handcuffs. He then took out Martin Luther King but nobody gives a shit about these hateful motherfuckers that murdered all y’all because how you went out there and murdered everybody in the fucking countries splendored the fucking cold and did everything you could for the man that killed the two people that stood up for any of you.
The first Sherlock Holmes of the millennium!
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Here’s one that most people wouldn’t know George Randolph John Crow Senior was no other than Adolf Hitler and Dorothy Ellen Shepard was Eva Braun! And their daughter Debra Susan Campbell was married to Gary Keith Horton to have John Clark Gable Jr. Your son John Randolph Crow Jr. They were the most surreal killer satanic narcissist in the world
So I came up with George Randolph John Crow Senior was no other than Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun was Dorothy Ellen Shepard! And their covert life Dorothy and George were both FBI agents out of Orlando Florida now you can understand why the third right law enforcement has been in play!
Then your deputy Lovejoy as well as his girlfriend Christina Corpus of the San Mateo County jail rewrited something on my record from a 22 letter word of ” TRESPASSING ” with 6 months time served on a Misdemeanor. That He Rewrote ” Terrorist Plotting” so y’all could go out and murder everybody that I ever met just makes no sense that you can’t believe your own handwriting.
The U.S. government is paying El Salvador $6 million a year to incarcerate the individuals it sends there.
Here’s the thing that most people don’t understand about Donald Trump.
He’s a collaborator for the Germans in the Third Reich henchman Donald Trump is certainly is. He is always been with the Third Reich and always been with the Germans. They have been fighting this country ever since before Abraham Lincoln died in the fucking Opera House. They were the ones on the vessels that brought the Red Coats with them so that the Africans that stole everything from oak Island could burnt down the White House in 1856 and infiltrate America so that everybody would believe that the German Hitler and the Nazi regime had been ended by the war. When Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower released Adolf Hitler through Canada and into the United States to retire in Sanford Florida and died in 1971 at a rifle age of 91 years old.
There was never an escape from Alcatraz Al Capone paid for three officers to go to work for the San Francisco Police Department where they retired and died in the graveyard at the San Francisco Police Department with their photographs at the San Francisco police department for 40 years retirement why there’s all that evidence in the world but yet the law enforcement has been so fucking corrupt ever since that they want to make you believe that they got on too rubber inner tubes that were made out of rubber cement and rubber raincoats and swam all the way over to Angel Island where they later drowned right. 500 trillion dollars they got from the government to search for all them people that never went anywhere but went to work for the San Francisco Police Department on a deal from Al Capone. And each and every escape since then has all been a materialistic value so that they can make trillions of dollars from the county and the city in the state for being the uneducated and unlicensed officers on the streets. 900% of them will tell you that it was not a requirement to have an education in law enforcement. Not a requirement for them to have a driver’s license. It’s not a requirement for them to have a concealed weapons permit. There’s no requirement to be educated licensed. And it’s not a requirement to go to school and get a graduation. To be the disgraceful piece of shit in the nation how that’s no requirement they already have that they’re the biggest brutality of the nation. The third Reich law enforcement