The deaths of two men who were found robbed and drugged after leaving gay bars in New York City's Hell's Kitchen last year have been ruled as homicides, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reported Friday.
The deaths of two men who were found robbed and drugged after leaving gay bars in New York City's Hell's Kitchen last year have been ruled as homicides, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reported Friday.
Both men died of"drug-facilitated theft," the medical examiner said. The NYPD said in a statement that it is investigating. John Umberger, 33, and Julio Ramirez, 25, died about five weeks apart last spring under similar circumstances, NYPD sources previously told CBS New York. Both men died after being seen leaving popular Hell's Kitchen gay bars with strangers,Umberger, 33 — a Washington, D.C.
Ramirez, 25, also died by acute intoxication from the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin, cocaine, lidocaine, and ethanol, the medical examiner found. Ramirez in the back of a taxi five weeks prior to Umberger's death, his family told CBS New York. They said that he was last seen on April 20, 2022, leaving the Ritz Bar and Lounge in Hell's Kitchen with three unidentified men, and reported dead a day later.
"Somebody drugged him to take his phone, to rob him. I mean, that is what happened. There is not a doubt in mind that's what happened," Carlos Ramirez, Julio's brother,
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