EAST ISLIP MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO 2021 MURDER THAT WAS CAPTURED ON VIDEO

(SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) – Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that Ismael Rodriguez-Rosado, 29, of East Islip, pleaded guilty to Murder in the Second Degree, after shooting 31-year-old German Ariel Montes De Oca Ramirez, of Bay Shore, to death outside of a restaurant in August 2021.

“This defendant took the life of Mr. Montes De Oca Ramirez in cold blood and then attempted to flee without answering for his actions,” said District Attorney Tierney. “Thankfully, because of the amazing work of Suffolk County police officers, this defendant was quickly arrested after leading police on a high-speed violent chase. Moreover, a K-9 unit located the murder weapon and detectives found video recordings of the murder. This was textbook policing.”

According to the investigation, on August 2, 2021, at approximately 1:06 a.m., Rodriguez-Rosado and Montes De Oca Ramirez were both outside of Mi Nueva Encanto Restaurant and Bar in Central Islip when a verbal argument between the two began. Rodriguez-Rosado pulled out a 9 mm pistol and shot Montes De Oca Ramirez four times, killing him. A witness called 911 and stated that shots were fired outside of bar, and that they saw a red color Ford Edge SUV traveling southbound on Carleton Avenue away from the scene.

Rodriguez-Rosado drove to a gas station parking lot at the corner of Union Boulevard and Saxon Avenue in Bay Shore. When undercover police officers spotted the red SUV, they pulled into the gas station parking lot and attempted to block Rodriguez-Rosado’s vehicle from leaving. Rodriguez-Rosado struck the undercover police vehicle as he escaped from the gas station.

Rodriguez-Rosado then fled northbound on Saxon Avenue while the undercover police vehicle followed. The pursuit continued onto southbound Commack Road where Rodriguez-Rosado began to drive erratically down the center of the road toward oncoming police vehicles. The undercover police vehicle then struck Rodriguez-Rosado’s vehicle on the rear driver’s side wheel causing it to spin and come to a stop. Rodriguez-Rosado was then placed under arrest.

The murder weapon was located that same evening by members of the K-9 Unit of the Suffolk County Police Department approximately one mile away from where Rodriguez-Rosado was apprehended. Detectives recovered multiple surveillance video recordings from around the restaurant that captured the homicide as it was occurring.

Prior to this case, Rodriguez-Rosado been convicted of Attempted Robbery in the First Degree in 2016, and sentenced to two years in prison followed by three years of post-release supervision.

On June 5, 2023, Rodriguez-Rosado pleaded guilty before County Court Judge, the Honorable Stephen Braslow, to the charges of Murder in the Second Degree, a Class A felony, and two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, a Class C felony. Rodriguez-Rosado’s next court date is scheduled for July 10, 2023 and he is being represented by George Duncan, Esq.

This case is being prosecuted by Eric S. Aboulafia of the Homicide Bureau, with investigative assistance from Detective T. Michael Palumbo of the Suffolk County Police Department’s Homicide Squad.

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