Vinson Lee Ramos

How they died

Deadly force

Bell Police Department personnel and East Los Angeles Station (sheriff's) personnel received 911 calls regarding a domestic dispute at a local convenience store, police said. The man had argued with and assaulted a woman, who had a child with her, at a fast food restaurant and then walked next door to a convenience store, where the dispute continued. When Bell police officers arrived, they encountered a man armed with a knife. He refused to comply with the officers' commands and advanced toward the officers with the knife, Ramos and was shot and killed.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Vinson Lee Ramos, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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