A mother-of-eight was brutally murdered in crime-ridden Oakland after confronting teenage drug dealers who had allegedly just sold her kids marijuana.
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Maria Ramos, 33, was visiting her mother, Blanca Velasco, with her eight children on August 7 when known drug dealers approached two of her children and reportedly sold them marijuana pipes.
Ramos and Velasco then decided to follow the blue Toyota sedan to tell them to stop coming to her house, according to KTVU.
Surveillance footage obtained by the TV station shows the suspects stop at an intersection, with one opening the driver’s side door.
Ramos and Velaso, in a gray SUV, then stop right next to the vehicle. Ramos, who had struggled with substance abuse in the past, got out of the passenger side when tragedy struck.
The teenagers inside the vehicle began shooting at her, with one passenger getting out of the car and firing more shots as Ramos ran away.
After a few moments, Velasco could also be seen driving the SUV away from the scene.
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She recounted how she thought her daughter was just taking cover.
‘I just saw her taking off and I just heard the bang,’ Velasco told NBC Bay Area.
‘And then I pressed on the gas to put my car in front of their car to shield my daughter,’ she said. ‘I saw my daughter going down, but I thought my daughter was taking cover.’
She told the San Francisco Chronicle she then peered into the back seat of the Toyota – where she saw a teenage boy half leaning out the window pointing a gun toward her.
In a panic, Velasco said she sped off with the Toyota trailing her, before eventually losing it in traffic.
She then doubled back to get Ramos, and at first didn’t see her – until she noticed her daughter lying on the street in a puddle of blood.
