A police source said Uribe had not been a suspect at first, but detectives got a tip that he had shown up for work the day after the slayings with some noticeable injuries. Both are due back in court May 26. Prosecutors said Uribe later demanded money from Maria Martinez, and shot her several times when she refused. According to the Cook County medical examiner, all of the victims suffered multiple stab wounds and multiple defensive wounds.
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Uribe and Ramos allegedly sat down to eat with the victims before carrying out the murders.
And Noe Martinez Sr., 62, husband to Rosaura.
Ramos and her boyfriend, Uribe, were arrested Thursday and charged with six counts of first-degree murder in the killings of six members of a family in Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood.
After murdering the family, including two boys, Uribe Cruz and Ramos left with money, a piggy bank, electronics and jewelry. “I just want to live”, Leonardo cried out while he too was stabbed, prosecutors said. He then “systematically” stabbed all other family members in the house as many as 45 times each, police say.
“Cellphone records also link Uribe to the scene”, Johnson said.
Noe Martinez Jr. then climbed the stairs after hearing gunshots and was beaten, punched and choked by Uribe Cruz, officials said. First, he killed 10-year-old Alexis.
As Uribe was stabbing Leonardo, the boy begged for his life, according to prosecutors. Police discovered the grisly scene in a home on February 4 after a relative asked for a well-being check. Cell phone records already had connected Uribe and Ramos to the crime.
After the murders, Uribe Cruz and Ramos tried to clean the house: Uribe Cruz washed his hands, Ramos mopped the floor and the couple washed off door knobs to try to remove fingerprints, prosecutors said.
Uribe Cruz and Ramos were able to pawn several of the items they stole from the Martinez family, prosecutors said.
The couple is accused of using some of the stolen money to buy milk and diapers for their own child and selling jewelry stolen from the home. Additionally, Maria Martinez’s fingernail scrapings were a match to Uribe Cruz’s DNA. Only one member of the family, sibling Victoria Martinez, survived.
She told police the couple wanted to buy a vehicle and made out that day with $250 in change, $300 in cash and jewelry that were later able to sell for $150.
None of the victims had been bound or restrained, which led authorities to think that the family knew their attackers, explained the chief of detectives, Eugene Roy.
“In my 28 years, I haven’t seen a case that has hit so close to home for myself and so many others in this department than what was discovered on that cold Thursday afternoon in February”, said Supt.
Both suspects were appointed a public defender.
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Prosecutors said Uribe went to the Martinez home with Ramos to rob his relatives, but the robbery then stretched out into a three-hour bloodbath inside the bungalow in the 5700 block of South California Avenue.
