MIAMI – Audio of the 911 simply call created the evening that Miami-Dade Law enforcement Director Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez shot himself in the head along the facet of the road has been launched.
The phone to the Hillsborough County Hearth Rescue was attained by CBS News Miami’s spouse The Miami Herald. The recording does not discover the speakers.
The discussion appears to just take location by way of a speaker program in the SUV, in accordance to The Miami Herald.
In the course of the connect with a lady, believed to be Ramirez’s wife, Jody, is heard declaring that at a person place he ran into website traffic as was resisting her attempts to address his wound on the aspect of the road. She frantically asks for aid.
Operator: “I will need you to select up the mobile phone ma’am.”
Lady: “I don’t have the telephone it can be on the motor vehicle, I really don’t know the place his phone is.”
Operator: “I need you to discuss to me so I can support him. Where by is he now?”
Girl: “He’s in the grass on the aspect of the street.”
Operator: “Is he awake?”
Female: “Sure. You should assist me, any person make sure you aid.”
Operator: “We currently have assistance dispatched. I will need you to pay attention to me so we can assist him. Where is the gun?”
Lady: “It truly is in this article in the motor vehicle, it is on the console.”
Operator: “I have to have you to get a clear dry cloth or a towel or a t-shirt or a little something so we can place on the wound and consider and management the bleeding.”
Girl: “He is not letting me.”
Many sections of the get in touch with were redacted before release, leaving long beeps involving the discussion, leaving an incomplete picture of what happened that night.
The taking pictures took position July 23rd as the director and his wife have been headed back again to Miami on I-75 just after a prior heated argument at a Tampa lodge.
Ramirez and his wife were being in Tampa for the summer season assembly of Florida’s Sheriff Association, which began on Sunday at the JW Marriot Lodge. The couple still left the welcome reception for the meeting at around 6:30 p.m. and went outside the house the resort exactly where an argument allegedly ensued.
According to the law enforcement supply, a passerby claimed to have observed Ramirez threatening to eliminate himself.
The law enforcement were being termed and the pair was asked to leave the lodge. Ramirez was in his vehicle with his spouse when he pulled about by the aspect of the street along Interstate 75 and shot himself, in accordance to two regulation enforcement sources.
The 911 contact seems to have transpired shortly after the capturing. He was in some way ready to wander all around due to the fact the lady on the cell phone is frightened when she saw Ramirez strolling into targeted traffic.
Ramirez remains at a Tampa medical center recovering from his injuries.
The director introduced two months in the past that he would run for sheriff future 12 months as a Democrat.
He was named law enforcement director in 2020 under previous Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez.
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava elevated Ramirez two many years later on so he could oversee the law enforcement department and Miami-Dade Hearth Rescue as interim chief of community protection. He was later on presented the place forever.
