On Tuesday, Nov. 2, the Yonkers Police Department held a press conference concerning a recent double homicide of two women that occurred on Shipman Avenue. Shipman Avenue and Kimball Avenue in the Wakefield Park section of Yonkers. Commissioner John Mueller explained that around 4:30 PM EST, on Nov. 1 police went to check on two residents at Shipman Avenue. Their goal was to do a welfare check. A friend became concerned after not hearing from the people in the home where the crime occurred for several days. Upon arrival, the officers ended up finding a broken window at the back of the house. They forced entry. After the forced entry, police found two deceased bodies.
26 hours after the discovery, Commission Mueller returned to inform the public that thanks to great police work, a suspect has been found and charged with Murder in the 2nd degree of both victims.
The victims were identified as a mother and daughter. The mother, Isabella Triano, 70-worked at Saunders High school. The daughter, Tricia Miller, was 38, at the time of her death. Mueller said that both victims of “knife trauma.”
The suspect was identified as Luis Gabriel Ramos, 27, from Yonkers. Ramos was found in Arizona, apparently on his way to Mexico. He drove to Arizona and was pulled over by the FBI and arrested without incident.
On Oct. 26, Ramos was arrested in Wappingers Falls, for Felony Arson. He was released and 8 days later he was arrested by the YPD for murder. “We have made a case about the difficulties of bail reform. The suspect was arrested for a serious charge a C Felony and released, and a week later two women were murdered. We are working with our state legislators to try and make modifications to bail reform,” said Mueller.
Mueller praised the work of the Detectives of the YPD who worked the case, and the cooperation from the Westchester DA’s office, the US Attorney’s office in the SDNY and the FBI.
“This is such an amazing job by our Yonkers detectives, and our partners in the DA’s office, the FBI, and the SDNY to all do this and come together in 24 hours.
There are currently no other suspects and a weapon has not yet been found. One challenge to this case is that the home was filled with an extrodinary amount of personal items, and bags upon bags that were removed and seen by cameras and interested residents. It appears that the mother and daughter were “hoarders” who never threw anything out.
“It is a challenge to go through everything, like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Every piece has to be examined and if evidence collected,” said Mueller, who added that detectives were able to find the suspect based on a tip from a former girlfriend who was in the YPD database.
The YPD also plans to establish a timeline based on how long it would take the suspect to travel across the country. Mueller said that the YPD does not know when the two women were murdered, and how long their bodies might have been in the house.
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