Chicago man gets 16 years for carjacking a woman at gunpoint while on bail for another carjacking

CHICAGO — A decide has handed a 16-year sentence to a person who carjacked a girl at gunpoint whereas on bail for one more armed carjacking cost and on probation for yet one more gun case.

Nicolas Ramirez, 22, pleaded responsible to aggravated vehicular hijacking with a weapon and a separate armed theft earlier than Decide Mary Anna Planey on Friday. She gave him concurrent 16-year sentences on every cost.

However let’s begin originally. In Might 2022, Ramirez pleaded responsible to felony firearm possession in alternate for a sentence of fifty hours of neighborhood service and two years of “first-time weapons offender probation” from Decide Stanley Sacks.

Simply three months later, Ramirez pulled out a gun and carjacked a driver in Cicero, prosecutors say. As the driving force obtained out of his automotive, Ramirez pistol-whipped him and ordered him to run or he’d danger being shot, prosecutors claimed. The Cicero carjacking expenses are nonetheless pending.

A short while later, Ramirez allegedly jumped out of the freshly hijacked automotive and tried to rob another person. When that sufferer didn’t comply, Ramirez hit them within the face with a gun and fled, in accordance with prosecutors.

Unable to afford bail in these circumstances, Ramirez stayed in jail for a few months till Decide Geary Kull slashed his bond deposit to $2,500 and despatched him dwelling on an ankle monitor. A few months later, Kull eliminated the ankle monitor, too.

After which Ramirez stopped exhibiting up for courtroom. Inside two weeks, Ramirez was allegedly again within the carjacking enterprise.

At 2:30 p.m. on July 11, 2023, Ramirez threatened to kill a 57-year-old girl whereas carjacking her at gunpoint within the 2500 block of South Springfield, prosecutors stated. Ramirez allegedly knocked on the lady’s driver’s window and pulled a gun from the again of his waistband.

“Get out, m*****f*****, or I’ll kill you,” he ordered.

She complied and instantly known as 911. Chicago cops intercepted the automotive lower than 5 minutes later and trapped it between a bunch of development gear and a swarm of squad automobiles.

Ramirez is due in courtroom once more this week to see Decide Geary Kull concerning the ongoing Cicero carjacking case. If he’s discovered responsible, his sentence is predicted to be consecutive to the 16 years he obtained on Friday.