CHICAGO — A woman who witnessed her former boyfriend kill six family members, including two young boys, at their Chicago home and then helped him steal their property was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday.
Jafeth Ramos, 25, pleaded guilty to armed robbery as part of a deal with Cook County prosecutors in which she agreed to testify against former boyfriend Diego Uribe Cruz, the Chicago reported. Sun-Times.
Uribe Cruz was sentenced to life in prison last month for six counts of first-degree murder in the February 2016 killings at the victims’ bungalow in the city’s southwest Gage Park neighborhood.
During Uribe Cruz’s trial, Ramos told jurors she took the plea deal in hopes that she could one day be with her son again, who was barely a toddler when the couple was arrested in May 2016.
During that trial, prosecutors alleged he shot his 32-year-old aunt Maria Martinez after he tried to rob her on February 4, 2016, before fatally stabbing her sons, aged 10 and 13, and stabbing or beating others to death. parents to make sure there were no witnesses.
Ramos declined to make a statement during his sentencing hearing.
As she was led out of the room, Ramos waved to family members in the gallery and made a heart shape with his hands. The family declined to comment afterward.
