Beloved barbershop owner left party to meet someone after getting a message on WhatsApp and never came home: Police

A Minnesota antheral allegedly stabbed a beloved subordinate of the Twin Cities assemblage and near him to dice connected the bid tracks.

Omar Andres Ramos Castro, 24, was arrested connected June 4 and charged with second-degree murder days aft the assemblage of 44-year-old Gabriel Arrazola Perez was recovered on a acceptable of railroad tracks successful St. Paul, Minnesota. According to a transgression ailment reviewed by Law&Crime, Perez was recovered connected May 25, erstwhile a man's English bulldog started pulling him toward the body's location. The man, who instantly called 911, told constabulary that the assemblage had not been determination the time before.

When constabulary arrived, they recovered an eyeglasses medicine and a driver's licence identifying the assemblage arsenic Perez, a well-known barbershop owner successful St. Paul. The dormant man's Subaru Crosstrek was recovered astir fractional a mile away.

According to the complaint, Perez's household told constabulary that they past saw him astatine a gathering astatine a section brewery astatine 4 p.m. connected May 24. After helium near the gathering, nary 1 heard from him again. But erstwhile investigators obtained his telephone records, they saw that Perez called idiosyncratic 3 times successful the hours aft helium near the brewery. The aforesaid idiosyncratic called him backmost astatine 6:34 p.m.

Investigators past obtained surveillance video of the bid tracks wherever Perez was found. Police wrote that betwixt 8:55 p.m. and 11:12 p.m., Perez's assemblage was "clearly visible" aft it had not been seen determination earlier. Videos allegedly captured Perez and different antheral walking astir the bid tracks astatine 7:03 p.m.

Police said the cellphone fig Perez was calling was tracked to the determination wherever Perez was seen with the different antheral before, during, and aft the alleged transgression took place.

Perez's telephone was aboriginal recovered by constabulary and a K-9 unit; fingerprints connected the telephone did not lucifer Perez. Further inspection of the telephone determined that the idiosyncratic Perez was contacting sent Perez a pin determination connected WhatsApp, adjacent to the determination wherever Perez was recovered dead.

Additional surveillance video from a adjacent Speedway convenience store captured a antheral wearing the aforesaid covering arsenic the antheral who was with Perez astatine the bid tracks. The man, yet identified arsenic Ramos Castro, was tracked to his apartment, wherever helium was arrested and taken to the constabulary presumption for questioning with the assistance of a translator.

After Ramos Castro was work his rights, helium initially said that helium had lone met Perez once, erstwhile Perez offered him enactment clearing operation debris from his home. He denied a relationship oregon narration with Perez. Ramos Castro's communicative evolved, and constabulary said helium admitted helium had received a fewer calls from Perez inviting him to get nutrient oregon fume marijuana. He denied that Perez was making intersexual advances.

According to the complaint, that communicative besides changed. After Ramos Castro denied seeing Perez connected May 24 and denied being astatine the bid tracks that day, helium was confronted with the grounds that allegedly enactment him astatine the scene. Ramos Castro past claimed helium was with Perez for astir 10 minutes, and determination were different radical with them. He claimed to constabulary that helium near Perez determination alone.

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After further questioning, Ramos Castro yet admitted that helium and Perez had an "encounter" astatine the bid tracks. Police said Ramos Castro claimed that Perez made "unwanted intersexual advances toward him," including allegedly reaching for his crotch. Ramos Castro claimed that helium became "filled with rage and felt helium had to support himself."

Police said Ramos Castro admitted to stabbing Perez with a pocketknife, but could not retrieve however galore times due to the fact that helium was "so overwhelmed by anger."

According to the transgression complaint, Perez had respective antiaircraft wounds successful summation to the stab wounds to his back, neck, chest, and abdomen. The aesculapian examiner determined that Perez's "large bowel was eviscerated," and helium had stab wounds that caused fractures to 3 vertebrae successful his cervix and back.

Ramos Castro was charged with second-degree murder. He is being held astatine the Ramsey County Jail connected $2.5 cardinal bond. His archetypal tribunal quality was scheduled for Monday.