SAN ANTONIO — Police arrested a suspect Thursday in connection with a June 2019 murder on the city's west side.
According to police, 18-year-old George Ramos was shot inside a white Ford Expedition before he drove into the side of a business on Culebra Road. He was found slumped over in the vehicle. Police said they had no leads at the time.
Nearly six months later, police arrested a suspect in the case, 23-year-old John Alexander Shegog. According to an arrest affidavit, witnesses reported hearing gunshots coming from the Ford Expedition as it drove in front of the Shell Gas Station parking lot headed towards Les Harrison before it crashed directly into a vacant gas station.
One witness, who reportedly knows Ramos and his family, approached the SUV and saw a black male around 20 years of age running out of the front passenger seat into a rec/maroon colored Ford Taurus near the rear of the Ford Expedition.
Video obtained from the Shell Gas Station confirmed witnesses' accounts of events leading up to the shooting and afterward.
According to a detective working the investigation, the video showed the Ford Expedition pulling up to the gas pump area of the Shell gas station. A few minutes later the maroon colored car pulls up next to the SUV, with a black male getting out of the car and getting into the SUV. After some time, the SUV pulls away from the parking lot with the suspect still inside the car.
The aforementioned events then take place, according to court documents.
The night of the shooting, several friends of the victim gathered to pay respects at the victim's home. It was at the victim's home, that a witness heard the name of "Boog" being thrown around as possibly being involved. Using social media, the witness then went on social media sites and found a man named "John Boog."
The witness noted that the photo of "John Boog" matched the photo of someone that a friend of the victim's said the victim had mentioned the night before the shooting.
According to Ramos' friend, Ramos told him that he had received messages from a person identifying himself as "Boog." The friend of the victim said that the victim told him he had bad feelings about "Boog" and agreed not to meet him that night.
After identifying "Boog" on social media as John Alexander Shegog, detectives brought in the witness for a photo array. The witness identified Shegog as the person who shot George Ramos, according to court records.
The affidavit notes that "during the course of the investigation items of evidence were submitted to the Bexar County Crime Lab analysis" and that the lab results came back with negative results.
Police said they believe more suspects are out there and the public is encouraged to come forward with information if they have it.
Cameras and microphones caught the moment Shegog was placed in the back of a marked SAPD vehicle. “Did I do it? No," he said.
When asked if he had a message for the family of the victim, Shegog replied, "My condolences go out to them. I’m sorry for your loss. I hope they find who did it.”
According to an SAPD spokesperson, Shegog will face a murder charge.
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