Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Monday, July 10, that a Bronx man was sentenced to 18 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of fatally stabbing his wife in front of their 9-year-old son in 2010 inside her home in Kingsbridge Heights. The defendant had fled the state for several years and was apprehended in Las Vegas in 2022, according to the prosecution.

 

In the context of the announcement, Clark said, “The defendant killed his wife in front of their son and thought he could get away with it. He was tracked down, indicted, and found guilty by a Bronx jury.” She added, “The victim’s son, now 22, bravely testified at the trial and was determined to see that justice was done. Now, the defendant will go to prison to pay for his heinous act.”

 

Clark said Hector Ramirez, 42, formerly of Webb Avenue in the Bronx, was sentenced on Monday by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Marsha Michael to 18 years in prison. He was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter on June 5, 2023, after a jury trial.

 

According to the investigation, on August 29, 2010, at approximately 5 a.m., the defendant stabbed his wife Ella Zamora in the chest with a knife in front of their 9-year-old son inside their Kingsbridge Heights home after the victim attempted to kick the defendant out of the apartment after an argument. Zamora died from a stab wound to the chest at New York Presbyterian Hospital. The boy was taken into care by the victim’s sister.

 

Ramirez was apprehended in Las Vegas in February 2022, according to the prosecution.

 

The case was prosecuted by assistant district attorney, David Birnbaum, trial counsel and assistant district attorney, Albert Ford, both of the Domestic Violence Bureau, under the supervision of Agata DiGiovanni, chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau, and under the overall supervision of Adrienne Giunta, deputy chief of the Special Victims Division, and Joseph Muroff, chief of the Special Victims Division.

 

Clark thanked William Browne, supervisor in the Domestic Violence Bureau, for his assistance in the case, as well as Detective Charlie Venticinque of the NYPD Cold Case Squad and Detective Cristofer Schiavone of the NYPD-FBI Joint Bank Robbery Task for their work on the investigation.