Man who Killed Wife in Front of Child Gets 18 years

A Bronx man has been sentenced to 18 years in the stabbing death of his wife. -File Photo

Bronx Voice

July 10, 2023

BRONX - A man who killed his wife and then was on the run for a decade was sentenced to 18 years, prosecutors said.

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of fatally stabbing his wife in front of their 9-year-old son in 2010. The defendant had fled the state for several years and was apprehended in Las Vegas in 2022.

 

District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant killed his wife in front of their son and thought he could get away with it.  He was tracked down, indicted, and found guilty by a Bronx jury. The victim’s son, now 22, bravely testified at the trial and was determined to see that justice was done. Now, the defendant will go to prison to pay for his heinous act.”

 

District Attorney Clark said Hector Ramirez, 42, formerly of Webb Avenue, in the Bronx, was sentenced by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Marsha Michael to 18 years in prison. He was found guilty of first-degree Manslaughter on June 5, 2023, after a jury trial.  

 

According to the investigation, on August 29, 2010, at approximately 5:00 a.m., the defendant stabbed his wife Ella Zamora in the chest with a knife in front of their 9-year-old son inside their Kingsbridge Heights home after the victim attempted to kick the defendant out of the apartment after an argument. 

Zamora died from a stab wound to the chest at New York Presbyterian Hospital. The boy was taken into care by the victim’s sister.  

Ramirez was apprehended in Las Vegas in February 2022.