Crime & Safety
VIDEO: Lawmakers Target Spanish Speakers to Help Find Other Suspects in Dodger Stadium Beating
On Sunday, City Council member Ed Reyes and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa reached out to the Spanish-speaking population.
Police are still seeking two suspects in connection with the Opening Day beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow in a Dodger Stadium parking lot.
31-year-old Giovanni Ramirez, a confirmed gang member, was booked Sunday afternoon for assault with a deadly weapon. He was apprehended early Sunday in a raid at an apartment building in the 800 block of North Mariposa Avenue in the Rampart Division.
A $250,000 reward remains in play for information leading to the arrests of a second male attacker and the woman who drove the getaway car.
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"We never gave up hope that this day would come; that the beginning of justice being served would happen,'' said Bryan Stow's sister, Erin Collins, outside the San Francisco hospital where her brother remains hospitalized. "We look forward to the day when the other suspects are apprehended as well.
At a Dodger Stadium news conference, Mayor Viaraigosa, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and Councilman Ed Reyes praised the Stow family. They also urged the two fugitive suspects in the case to turn themselves in.
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``Save us a lot of grief and let's end this. The woman who was driving, you need to give yourself in. The other coward that did this, you need to give yourself in,'' Reyes said.
Speaking in Spanish, he and Viaraigosa also called on the Spanish-speaking community to help bring in the remaining suspects.
See part of Reyes' Spanish-language plea in the accompanying video.
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