On a tragic day in May of 2021, the lives of a mother and daughter from Buffalo, New York, were cut short in a shocking act of domestic violence. Sixty-three-year-old Margie Ramos and her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Megan Ramos Wisniewski, were found shot to death in their Pooley Place home. The grim discovery was made after a concerned neighbor reported hearing gunshots in the early morning hours.
When police arrived at the residence, they were met with a heart-wrenching scene.
Inside the home, they found not only the bodies of the two women but also a six-year-old girl, Megan's daughter, who was physically unharmed but had witnessed the horrific events. The child was safely removed from the home and placed in the care of family members.
The ensuing investigation quickly led authorities to a suspect, a man who was reportedly in a relationship with Megan Wisniewski. A standoff with the suspect ensued at a different location on the city's West Side. After several hours of negotiation, the confrontation ended when the suspect took his own life.
The preliminary investigation suggested that the tragic incident stemmed from a domestic dispute. The loss of both Margie Ramos and her daughter left their family and the local community in a state of profound grief and shock. Friends and family remembered Margie as a loving mother and grandmother, and Megan as a devoted mother to her young daughter. The focus for the surviving family members became the well-being of the little girl who was left without her mother and grandmother in the wake of the devastating murder-suicide.
