In the early morning hours of Sunday, July 5, 2020, a dispute in a Norcross parking lot ended with the death of 35-year-old Alejandro J. Ramirez, an Alpharetta resident. Officers responding to a 911 call about shots fired at the Fusion Event Hall on Brook Hollow Parkway found Ramirez with apparent gunshot wounds; he was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation led the murder probe and reported the shooting followed an altercation between Ramirez and 22-year-old Billy Galvez of Atlanta. According to the GBI, Galvez retrieved a firearm from a vehicle, drove through the parking lot to where Ramirez was, shot him, then fled. After a multi-jurisdictional manhunt, Galvez was arrested on December 1, 2020, in a Forsyth County park after a brief foot chase; Jennifer Jenni Rodriguez-Cardona was arrested at the same time and later charged with hindering apprehension.

Galvez was charged in Gwinnett County with Malice Murder and Aggravated Assault; the case later proceeded to trial and resulted in convictions for voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Does anyone have information about Ramirez’s activities that night or the dispute that led to this shooting?