Within the video, the gunman — later recognized by police as 18-year-old John Ramos — might be seen “running for his life” as two males in a rented white Toyota Corolla chase him down Westchester Ave. in Soundview, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny mentioned, describing the July 14 incident.
“The car cuts him off,” Kenny mentioned. “They basically jump out, they corner him, they start to beat him up, they grab him in a bear hug, they throw him to the ground.”
One of many attackers — later recognized by police as 27-year-old Raquan Matthews, identified in music circles because the drill rapper KashOut4E — punches Ramos within the head and goes via his pockets whereas his companion movies the battle on his telephone, and at one level kicks Ramos within the face.
By some means, Ramos will get up, pulls a gun from his waistband and shoots at Mathews from over his shoulder, hitting him within the neck, Kenny mentioned. Ramos then shoots on the different attacker, who runs away down Commonwealth Ave.
“As he’s getting ready to walk away [Ramos] shoots Matthews one more time for good measure,” Kenny mentioned.
Screengrab from a video exhibits a person capturing two different males following a dispute close to Commonwealth and Westchester aves. within the Soundview part of the Bronx on July 14, 2025. (Obtained by Every day Information)
“At first I thought they were robbing him,” she mentioned. “One of the guys were saying, ‘Give me my money, give me my money,’ like he owed them. They were kicking him and he was saying, ‘I don’t have no money,’” the neighbor recounted on the time. “He pulled a gun out of nowhere and pow! pow! pow! — the guy in the orange went down,” the witness continued.
Based on Kenny, the altercation was a part of a longstanding rivalry. Matthews and his confederate have each beforehand been arrested for theft and are suspects in a number of theft patterns, Kenny mentioned.
“He may be a rapper, but his main job is he’s a robber,” Kenny mentioned of Matthews.
Ramos has been arrested twice, as soon as for reckless endangerment as an adolescent offender and as soon as for aggravated harassment.
EMS rushed Matthews to Jacobi Medical Heart, the place he stays in important situation, police mentioned. Opposite to what some retailers have reported, he’s at the moment nonetheless dwelling, Kenny mentioned.
Police are nonetheless looking for Ramos.
Initially Revealed: July 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM EDT
