Abducted California boy found safe
Posted July 9th, 2008 by minortopics | via ap.google.comRyan Ramos, who went missing after his father allegedly shot his mother and abducted him has turned up safe at a church in Mexico. Lonnie Ramos, his father, was killed in a car accident.
Ryan Ramos was found alone Sunday in a Mormon church in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and was expected home in Orange County on Monday, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said. He had been missing since Wednesday, when his father, Lonnie Ramos, allegedly shot his estranged wife in the face during a custody exchange and took off with their child, authorities said.
On Monday, authorities announced that Lonnie Ramos, 46, had been killed in a car accident in Juarez, Amormino said. He did not have any other details.
The boy was in El Paso, Texas, across the border from Juarez, awaiting a private flight to Southern California, Amormino said.