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Police named three suspects late Friday in connection to the homicides of two males who had been drugged, robbed and killed in separate incidents following visits to New York Metropolis homosexual bars final yr.

A spokesperson for the New York Metropolis Police Division stated it’s asking for the general public’s help to search out Jayqwan Hamilton, 35, Robert Demaio, 34, and Jacob Barroso, 30, who they imagine are related to the homicides of John Umberger, a 33-year-old political advisor, and Julio Ramirez, a 25-year-old social employee. The entire named suspects are residents of town, in line with police. 

Umberger and Ramirez had been each discovered lifeless after visiting homosexual bars within the metropolis’s energetic Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood final spring. Each had left the bars with at the least one unknown particular person earlier than their financial institution accounts had been drained of 1000’s of {dollars} utilizing facial recognition entry on their telephones, in line with their relations.

Jacob Barroso, Jayqwan Hamilton, and Robert Demaio.
Jacob Barroso, Jayqwan Hamilton, and Robert Demaio.NYPD

Final month, the health worker’s workplace dominated their deaths as homicides brought on by a “drug-facilitated theft.” A number of medication had been discovered of their methods, together with fentanyl, lidocaine and cocaine.

A spokesperson for the NYPD additionally confirmed that Hamilton, Demaio and Barroso are suspects in a broader “citywide theft sample” that features a whole of 17 incidents. The incidents — which embrace Ramirez’s and Umberger’s robberies and deaths — occurred between September 19, 2021, and August 28, 2022, the spokesperson stated.

Two regulation enforcement officers confirmed with NBC Information on Wednesday {that a} Manhattan grand jury has indicted a number of suspects in reference to the deaths of Umberger and Ramirez. One of many suspects, Shane Hoskins, was arraigned on felony larceny and id theft prices Thursday, prosecutors stated. The indictment doesn’t identify the opposite 4 suspects.

The indictment alleges a sample the place the group of suspects would strategy people outdoors of bars or nightclubs in Manhattan, interact them in dialog after which give or slip them medication “for the aim of inflicting their incapacitation.” 

As soon as the victims had been “incapacitated to the extent that their means to understand occasions turned diminished,” the 5 co-conspirators would then steal their victims’ cell telephones and bank cards and use the bodily playing cards and data saved on the victims’ telephones to switch cash to themselves and make purchases, in line with the indictment.

The 2 officers additionally instructed NBC Information that the suspects are believed to be focusing on victims for monetary acquire and never due to their sexual orientation. Nevertheless, they added that the New York Metropolis Police Division’s Hate Crime Process Pressure is helping within the investigation.

Within the months after Umberger’s and Ramirez’s deaths, extra homosexual New Yorkers stepped ahead with eerily comparable accounts to Ramirez’s and Umberger’s. NBC Information has spoken with a number of homosexual males who stated they survived comparable incidents from December 2021 to October 2022.

The NYPD beforehand confirmed with NBC Information that there are a number of teams of criminals committing these kind of crimes towards males visiting town’s homosexual bars. Police additionally confirmed that comparable crimes had been being dedicated towards patrons of bars with none LGBTQ affiliation. 

On Wednesday, the New York Metropolis health worker’s workplace additionally confirmed that it’s investigating “a number of extra deaths in comparable circumstances” to these of Ramirez and Umberger. It’s unclear, nevertheless, in the event that they had been discovered lifeless after visiting homosexual bars or whether or not they had been related to the indicted suspects.

A spokesperson for the health worker’s workplace stated they “couldn’t remark additional because of the ongoing prison investigations.”

The 2 regulation enforcement officers additionally instructed NBC Information that there’s a separate group suspected of committing comparable crimes on 26 victims. The officers stated that dressmaker Kathryn Marie Gallagher, whose demise in July was dominated a drug-facilitated murder by the health worker’s workplace, was one of many subsequent group’s victims.

Jonathan Dienst and Kenzi Abou-Sabe contributed.


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