This flag is being raised the week of October 9th to honor the memory of Amber Elena Lechuga and Amelia Analesse Ramirez, the 13th and 14th known persons to be murdered due to domestic violence in Minnesota in 2014. Amber Elena Lechuga, 22, was killed by a gunshot wound to the head on September 25 in the Springfield apartment she shared with her boyfriend and two children. Amber’s body was found dismembered in the front passenger floor of a burning van in Sleepy Eye, and her head was found nearby in the Cottonwood River. Amber’s boyfriend, 26-year-old Miguel Angel Vasquez, has been charged with her murder. On March 15, Amelia Analesse Ramirez, 13-months-old, died as a result of multiple blunt-force traumatic injuries caused by her father. According to a criminal complaint, Angel Daniel Ramirez, 19, admitted during questioning that he had punched the 13-month-old girl multiple times, pulled her hair out and threw a cup that hit her eye. Ramirez told authorities that the night before Amelia died he was upset with the child’s mother so he went to the infant’s crib and punched her both in the stomach and the back of the head. Relatives told police that Ramirez was controlling and abusive toward the child’s mother, which was confirmed by the mother. The Cottage Grove man has been charged with second-degree murder.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:51:25 +0000
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