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| Lucero "Lucy" Gonzalez holds up a photo of her sister, Maribel Ramos, as the family and authorities searched for the missing Army vet after her disappearance earlier this month. [source] |
Authorities in Orange County have arrested Kwang Choi Joy (don't ask me how he got that name) for the killing of Cal State Fullerton student Maribel Ramos, allegedly after an argument over Ms Ramos deciding to kick out Mr Joy for failure to pay rent.
From OC Weekly:
Kwang "K.C." Joy, who is currently being held in lieu of $1 million bail, is due to be arraigned Tuesday for the murder of the 54-year-old's roommate of one and a half years, Maribel Manriquez Ramos.Ms Maribel's body was found dumped in Modjeska Canyon, one of the rugged mountain areas found in the less populated areas of OC jutting the mountains.
Questioned by police and the media in the days after the 36-year-old U.S. Army veteran and Cal State Fullerton criminology student went missing, Joy had described Ramos as his best friend and the only family he had.
Joy had said he last saw Ramos outside their Orange apartment on May 2. Her family reported her missing the following day. The woman's body was found May 16 near Santiago Canyon and Jackson Ranch roads in Modjeska Canyon.
After the county coroner confirmed the identification of the body, Joy was taken to the Orange Police Department, questioned and arrested.
Mr Joy was apparently not a nice guy, or maybe a nice guy who didn't always take his meds: he used to live in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he threatened to kill his sister who still lives there early this year. He may have skipped bail and and possibly has been using aliases (he's sometimes described as Cho and other times as Choi and he uses "K.C." sometimes, and I'm not sure how one gets Joy from any Korean last name, unless he went Choe [for 최], took that to its common misspelling of Choi, and then decided that should be Joy).
For those of us who seek tenants or seek roommates and housemates, this kind of thing is always fraught with some level of peril. How do you sift through the reams of people contacting you on Craigslist to determine who is going to pay their rent on time, clean up the bathroom and the kitchen and keep their room tidy, and not murder you.
Requiescat in pace, Maribel Manriquez Ramos.
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Well if you would look into anything you would know that both him and his sister were adopted! What happened to innocent until proven guilty? He is a nice guy!
ReplyDeleteI'm passing along what was in the news reports, but note that I also included words like alleged and apparently.
DeleteAnd "a nice guy" can do terrible things sometimes. I personally know of three people who'd committed murders — one in a crazed state, one in violent premeditation, and the other in calculated revenge — at least two of the three would routinely be described as "a nice guy."
Funny, how would somebody know "if you would look into anything you would know that both him and his sister were adopted! What happened to innocent until proven guilty? He is a nice guy!". One sign that the guy is some sort of terrorist is random trolls people come out of the woodwork trying to defend folks like this. Lots of random Asians these days doing mass shootings and murders for no motive when there is always at least one motive for people to kill Americans, especially Veterans of Iraq like Chris Kyler who was also mysteriously murdered where authorities overlooked the one possible motive that makes sense. Same motive as Major Hasan who told us which side he was on. Just harder to tell when the agent of death is Asian instead of Arab
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