NBC News.They eventually made their way to the gay establishment the Ritz Bar and Lounge. A security camera near the bar caught Ramirez with three men, Ramirez’s brother Carlos told the outlet.
He said the men then entered a taxi. Less than an hour later, the driver pulled up to the police telling them his Ramirez wouldn’t wake.He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital at 4:49 a.m.It wasn’t until his family and friends began looking for him and calling hospitals did they discover he had died.
He was first identified as “John Doe” because he didn’t have any form of ID on him, Carlos said.“The last text Julio sent was at 3:29am to his friend Carlos C.
saying ‘did you go home.’ At 3:45am Carlos C. responded, ‘I’m home.’ Julio did not respond after that. Julio was supposed to meet Carlos at his apartment and never made it there,” Ramirez’s friend Karinina Quimpo told local news outlet W42ST. “We are unsure if Julio truly messaged Carlos C.