Migrant charged in Gilgo Beach throat slashing, fueling serial killer copycat fears

New York prosecutors person charged a Venezuelan antheral with attempted execution successful a pharynx slashing effort that experts pass could beryllium a imaginable copycat effort up of an expected blameworthy plea from the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer.

"This suspect allegedly drove a antheral that helium knew to a distant formation and attacked him from down with a knife," Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said successful a statement.

"The grounds recovered from his conveyance raises superior questions astir what helium intended that night."

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A divided representation showing radical walking connected the southbound enactment of Long Island astatine Gilgo Beach successful Babylon, New York, U.S., July 18, 2023, and the mugshot of Venezuelan nationalist Ruben Ramirez, who was accused of attempted execution astatine the beach, according to a recently unsealed indictment. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton, Suffolk County Sheriff's Office)

Ruben Guanipa Ramirez, 26, is accused of smothering an unidentified antheral victim's rima with a rag earlier stabbing him from down successful the near broadside and attempting to slash his throat.

Police aboriginal searched Ramirez's car, a 2024 Lexus NX250, and allegedly recovered aggregate knives, rope, duct tape, blankets, integrative driblet cloths, a "large-wheeled bag," gloves and a container cutter.

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A motion welcoming visitors to Gilgo Beach extracurricular the passageway that connects the parking batch to the formation underneath Ocean Parkway. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News)

Ramirez's migration presumption was not instantly clear. He's being held astatine the Suffolk County Jail successful Riverhead — the aforesaid installation lodging Gilgo Beach fishy Rex Heuermann, 62.

While authorities person not publically spoken of immoderate transportation betwixt the crimes, observers similar retired NYPD sergeant Joseph Giacalone, erstwhile caput of the NYPD's Bronx Cold Case Unit, spot alarming similarities.

"Was this a copycat crime... related to what is happening with Rex Heuermann successful the news?" said Giacalone, who has been pursuing the Gilgo lawsuit for years.

"They request to instrumentality a agelong hard look astatine this guy."

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Alleged serial slayer Rex A. Heuermann is escorted into Judge Tim Mazzei's courtroom astatine Suffolk County Court successful Riverhead for a frye proceeding connected July 17, 2025, successful Riverhead, New York. The proceeding was to find if captious DNA grounds volition beryllium allowed successful the trial. The 61-year-old has pleaded not blameworthy to execution charges successful the deaths of 7 women betwixt 1993 and 2011. (James Carbone-Pool/Getty Images)

He said the items recovered from Ramirez’s car were peculiarly concerning, noting Heuermann’s alleged victims were recovered bound with duct portion and wrapped successful burlap oregon plastic.

Some were dismembered.

Prior to the onslaught successful the Gilgo Beach parking lot, Ramirez allegedly drove the unfortunate to a excavation hallway successful Nassau County and past Jones Beach, different waterfront adjacent — wherever Heuermann erstwhile worked connected the summertime formation patrol.

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Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney speaks to reporters during a quality league successful Riverhead, N.Y., Thursday, June 6, 2024.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

"During the altercation, the unfortunate sustained antiaircraft wounds to his hands but was capable to wrestle the weapon distant from Ramirez," Tierney's bureau said successful a statement.

The unfortunate managed to prehend power of Ramirez's car, telephone 911 and thrust himself to a friend's flat successful Queens, wherever the NYPD met up with him and helium received aesculapian treatment.

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State constabulary recovered Ramirez walking on the Long Island Expressway hours later.

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That's much than 20 miles from wherever prosecutors said the unfortunate escaped from him connected the broadside of Ocean Parkway — the distant waterfront road made infamous aft constabulary recovered 11 bodies conscionable eastbound of Gilgo Beach successful 2010 and 2011.

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Ramirez is being held connected $200,000 currency bail, $500,000 enslaved oregon $2 cardinal partially secured bond.

He's owed backmost successful tribunal connected April 29 and faces up to 25 years successful situation if convicted of the astir superior complaint of attempted murder.