Ramos Has Troubled Past

Joseph “Jose” Andrade Ramos was arrested on September 25 in connection with a shooting on Monday, September 23 in Coalinga. Five shots were fired into a home on E Pleasant Street in Coalinga at approximately 10:30 PM. During that incident, a toddler was wounded as she leaned on her father’s chest as the two of them relaxed in the family’s living room. One round went through the home and into a neighbor’s home.

Using all their resources and working with other agencies, Coalinga police were able to identify Ramos as a ‘person of interest’ with that incident. Ramos was arrested in a motel in Avenal, a town lying 20 miles south of Coalinga.

It was just over a year ago, on Wednesday February 28, 2018 at approx. 8:30 pm, that Coalinga police officers responded to the 300 Block of Van Ness Ave. regarding a shots fired call with suspects running from the scene.

At the scene, on Van Ness,  officers found that a firearm had been used to shoot at a residence. No one was injured by the shooting, but the house was hit several times. Officers determined that one of the suspects had run in the direction of a house in the 200 block of N. Third St. At that residence officers, detained a Jose Ramos, a potential suspect in the shooting. Officers searched he back yard of the residence and located 

a loaded SKS assault rifle and a short barrel shotgun with a jammed shell casing in the breech. He was taken into custody for a felon being in possession of a firearm

, resisting arrest, and probation violations. Information gained in the arrest of Ramos, led officers to arrest Ismael Hernandez later in the evening for his role in shooting at the residence. This incident has been determined to be gang related. Both Ramos and Hernandez were booked into the Coalinga City Jail for a variety of charges related to this earlier incident.

Both Coalinga Police officers and a bail bondsmen were searching for Ramos when he was arrested yesterday.

Ramos has a history of assault, gang affiliation and has been possibly related to past shootings, but police do not have any witness that will come forward. He is currently being held in the Coalinga jail but will be transported to Fresno today.