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What happened to Julio?

Was his death just an unfortunate accident?

I wasn't buying that. Who were these people?

How did this happen?

He was supposed to call me back, and...

Sorry.

There was the very clear voice saying, "Mom, you need to go get

the people that did this."

The first victim was a young social worker.

Now we're hearing about a man visiting from Washington, D.C.

The possible connection sent a shockwave of fear

through the gay community. - It's terrifying.

There will be future targets.

I was like, "You gotta be kidding me!"

The callousness and the blatant disregard

for people was terrifying.

It's sickening. And for what?

The cool video on social media?

The big question is, were these victims

of homicides? And how do you prove it?

New York City has long been a safe haven for the city's

thriving gay community.

But just as Pride Month was about to begin in 2022,

something went very, very wrong.

A string of mysterious deaths put the entire gay community

on edge.

Nightlife is a hallmark of this city, and now it felt

like it had become a hunting ground.

That was a very scary thought.

In 2022, 25-year-old Julio Ramirez is the son

of immigrants from El Salvador, and he was born and raised

in Long Island.

My brother Julio was seven years younger than me,

and since he was a little baby, I would take care of him,

and we'd do all kinds of things together.

Since he was a little boy, he liked to dance,

and he was always silly. He was just so vibrant.

Julio enjoyed school.

He put his best effort in everything that he did.

He knew he wanted to go to college

and gain a good career.

Julio and I met during our freshman year

at the University of Buffalo.

One of the girls in the dorm introduced me to him,

and that night, I put him in my cell phone as,

"Julio, mi mejor amigo," my best friend in Spanish,

and we were just inseparable from then on.

Julio was very outgoing, very sassy...

...and the most caring person ever.

If I needed him, he'd be there.

Julio, he actually first came out to me.

I was the first person that knew.

And I just, I was like, "OK, that's cool."

I was more happy that he trusted me that much

where he would share things like that with me.

And I remember him telling my parents.

And my mom just hugged him, and she said, "OK, baby."

In 2021, Julio graduates from the University of Buffalo

with master's degrees in public health and social work.

Soon after that, he relocates to New York City,

where he takes a job as a psychiatric social worker.

When he moved into his apartment in Brooklyn,

he was excited to go out and make new memories.

And he had made a ton of friends in the short time

that he lived in the city.

On April 20th, I spoke with him.

He was telling me how he was at work, and he was gonna

stay late that night.

And I said, "All right, so I'll call you later."

He said, "Yeah, all right, go for it."

And that's the last thing I, um...

I heard him say.

In downtown Manhattan, a uniformed officer gets

flagged down on Stanton Street by a taxi cab driver.

In the back of the cab, the uniformed guys find

a 20-to-30-year-old male, unconscious, unresponsive.

The uniformed officers tried CPR to revive him.

They call EMS to the scene.

EMS transports this unidentified male

to Beth Israel Hospital, where he's ultimately

pronounced deceased.

At the hospital, they found that he didn't have

any identification on him, no cell phone, no wallet,

no credit cards, nothing.

So the case was taken as a John Doe investigation.

I woke up on Thursday, April 21st, and I saw

that I had the notification that Julio's location was

turned off for me.

We always shared our location with each other, just making

sure that we were safe. And so I texted him,

and he didn't say anything to me.

And I figured his phone was turned off.

Later that evening, my mom told me that she hadn't heard

from him, which was strange because he called my mom

everyday and she was getting a little worried.

We talk all day, every day.

And so, by that night, I knew that something's wrong.

And so I called Julio's mom, and she hadn't heard

from him either.

And she was just crying on the phone

because she was so worried.

And then his job called saying that he didn't go into work.

That's when things got very, uh, worrying.

We had his friends in Brooklyn calling hospitals and the NYPD,

and they were supposed to call me back.

And the next...

Sorry.

After reaching out to multiple hospitals,

Julio's friends learn that a deceased John Doe has been

taken to Beth Israel Hospital,

and authorities are asking for information about Julio's

next of kin.

On the 22nd, my dad got a call asking if he had a son

named Julio Ramirez, and he said, "Yeah, that's my son."

And it was a medical examiner calling to let him know

that Julio was at the medical examiner's office,

and he's dead.

They said, "You need to come identify his body."

It was very abrupt.

My dad called me,

and when he told me,

that was just very, like...

like unbelievable. Like, I can't even explain it.

I can't even explain what, uh... how that felt.

Julio's mother called, and she told me, "He's dead."

I was just screaming.

I just kept saying, like, "Why, why, why?"

When we finally get a call from the police,

we learned that Julio had been out the night of the 20th

going into the 21st.

And around 3 AM, he was found dead in a cab.

They had spoke to the cab driver,

who said that he picked him up with three other people

from Hell's Kitchen.

They were driving downtown.

The three guys asked the cab driver to stop

and let them out,

and they just left my brother in there.

The cab driver continued to drive, but, like,

two blocks later, he flagged down the police officer

because my brother was unresponsive.

The police said that it was just a simple O.D.

That was it.

I was definitely shocked when they talked about overdosing,

and a lot of Julio's friends couldn't believe it either.

When we talked to the police about it, they told us,

"Sometimes you don't really know your family."

But I wasn't buying that, you know, I knew my brother.

We were very close.

Who were these people? How did he O.D.?

How did this happen?

In order to determine the cause of death,

the cops and medical examiner need the toxicology report back.

The problem is, it really is not fast to get

a full toxicology report.

You can get a preliminary one quite quickly, but, you know,

to find out the exact dosage and exactly what he had

in his system, it can take several months

and even up to a year.

So in the weeks after Julio's death,

all his family can do is wait for answers.

Friday, May 27th, my son John Umberger was coming up

to New York City from Washington for Memorial Day weekend

because he was seeing friends from college, and he was going

to stay in a townhouse that his company had been

renovating on East 61st street.

Friday night, John was enjoying New York City nightlife,

having dinner with friends, and then later dancing

at The Q, a gay club in the Hell's Kitchen area.

While at The Q, he did send a text of him dancing

and having a great time.

Saturday morning around 9:15, he stopped sharing his location.

I'd send a text to him saying, "Hey, how's it going?"

He didn't respond, but my text kept saying "read."

Monday the 30th, John was to get back to Washington, D.C.,

and I still had no word from him.

And so that evening, I left a frantic message

of, "Hey, I'm really getting concerned.

Just please let me know you made it back to D.C."

By Wednesday morning, June 1st, I was in panic mode.

These are some of my favorite photos of John

because they capture him at a given moment in his life.

This little one from just before first grade, just shows

his mischievous little grin, and yet was just a sweetie pie.

And I think if you look at all these pictures,

that's what you consistently see.

When John was 15, he shared with me

that he was gay.

And it was just beautiful.

John Umberger graduated from Georgia Tech in 2015

and spent most of his career living in Washington, D.C.,

working in conservative politics.

This was John's last dinner in D.C.

before he left to come up to New York the next morning.

And it was a happy time.

John and I were very close.

We probably talked to each other every other day,

but he would always stay in touch with me.

So by Wednesday, June 1st, it is now day six, and I have

not heard a word from John, and I was horribly alarmed,

which led to calling the New York Police Department.

John's mother calls the police precinct closest

to the townhouse and says, "Please go do a welfare check

on my son."

Shortly thereafter, I received a phone call informing me

that John's body had been found inside the townhouse.

I collapsed, um...

in-- in...

tears and horrifying sobs,

and my world stopped.

Once Mr. Umberger was found deceased,

the 19th Precinct detective squads responded.

But there was no signs of forced entry.

No signs of a struggle.

There was no signs of criminality that could be

ascertained at that time.

Later that afternoon, detectives called and indicated

that John had died of a drug overdose.

That did not make sense.

There is no way he would have done that.

I immediately told the police about the red flags

with John's phone, text messages being read, but still no John.

That is when I learned the phone is missing.

His wallet was there, but all debit and credit cards,

as well as his driver's license, were also missing.

And in that moment, I realized something evil

had caused the death of my son.

Based on the level of decomposition,

the medical examiner believes that John Umberger likely died

in the early morning hours of May 28th.

That's four days before his body was discovered.

The medical examiner knew that this was a suspicious DOA,

but they would have to determine the cause

and manner of death based on the facts of the case

and the toxicology report.

Toxicology can take six months, but in 2022, we're coming

out of COVID, so they had no idea when this toxicology

would come back.

The weekend after his body was found, seven of us came

to New York to retrieve John's body and find out

if we could get any indication of what had happened.

I decided I would go to the morgue

and sit with John by myself...

to have a moment with him.

Sorry, um...

I laid across his body and said, "I need you

"to tell me everything that you can,

and I need to know what happened."

And there was the very clear voice that only a mother

can recognize from her child of saying, "I didn't do this

"to myself, and Mom, you need to go get the people

that did this to me."

At that point, I made the decision we needed

to show up at the 19th precinct.

So that Sunday afternoon, seven of us walked in,

requested to meet with the detective,

and we began to present our knowledge of who John was

and that on no planet would John have overdosed.

And he stopped us and said, "I do see your point,"

and he decided that maybe we were right

and said that homicide detectives would be

assigned to John's case.

When we were assigned to the Umberger case,

it was not considered a homicide,

but because his cell phone, his credit cards,

and cash was missing,

we started looking at John Umberger's credit report.

I was able to determine what credit cards he had,

and then I immediately placed a call to American Express.

I asked, "Was there any activity between the night of May 27th

and June 1st?"

They checked, and they said, "There were transactions

"that were made, but we cannot release any further information

without a subpoena."

I suspected right off the bat that maybe he was out

hanging out or he was with somebody, overdosed,

and now somebody that he knew that didn't necessarily kill him

was now having a spending spree.

The detectives submit a subpoena for John Umberger's

credit card history.

While they await approval, a major gathering

in Hell's Kitchen takes over the New York airwaves.

Tonight, a gathering in Hell's Kitchen,

one of the last places that Julio Ramirez was seen alive.

About a month and a half after my brother died,

we didn't know anything.

We kept calling the police, trying to tell them,

like, "Listen, something is wrong."

Like, "My brother didn't do drugs."

Like, "It wasn't an accidental overdose."

I felt like nobody was really listening.

Julio had been at this gay bar in Hell's Kitchen.

Video surveillance of Julio Ramirez leaving the bar

with three unidentified men.

Why did he not have his cell phone

nor his wallet on him?

Julio's father says, "What did those people do?

Who are these people?"

It was very frustrating, not knowing if we would

ever find out what happened or who were these guys.

But then shortly after Julio's death, we went to clean out

his apartment and I got my hands on his computer.

I opened a budgeting app and I saw all these

different transactions and large amounts of money

being transferred through Apple Pay and Zelle

and cleaned out his bank account.

Following his death, loved ones noticed

more than $20,000 was transferred

from his bank account.

I called the detectives, but we didn't hear anything

of the investigation.

So, in June, his friends suggested

that we should bring it to the media,

we should bring awareness, we should make noise about it

to get the cops to pay more attention.

So, his friends put together a vigil.

- Say his name! - Julio Ramirez!

What exactly happened to Julio?

Was he targeted, or is his death

just an unfortunate accident?

It was amazing the amount of people that saw

that Julio was a person who had people that loved him,

and he deserved justice.

In early June, I was watching the local news, and I saw

that there was a vigil for an individual named

Julio Ramirez, who was found deceased in a cab.

And I said to Detective Rose, "Hey, these are

similar circumstances to the Umberger death."

These were both gay men at nightclubs in Hell's Kitchen.

We believe they both overdosed on a substance.

Their phones were stolen and their cards used

without authorization.

It became apparent that it was the same M.O.

in both cases.

It was Gay Pride Month of 2022.

So the case got a lot of media, especially when the public was

made aware of the connection between the Umberger case

and the Ramirez case.

The first victim was a young social worker from Brooklyn.

Now we're hearing about the death of a man

visiting from Washington, D.C.

As news starts to spread, bar owners and event planners

are also stressing safety while out.

The gay community felt this isn't just two random events.

Either they were targeted or something's going on here.

- It's terrifying. - I fear that there will be

future targets. - We need to speak up,

and we need to look out for each other.

While the possible connection between the Umberger

and Ramirez cases sends a shock wave of fear

through the gay community, two days into

their investigation, the subpoena comes through,

and detectives are able to review John Umberger's

credit history.

What they discover is that there are nearly

eleven thousand dollars worth of charges racked up

after his death.

There were several transactions at some liquor stores,

some retail purchases, but based on John Umberger's

date of death, we're able to determine

that his last location where he legitimately used

his credit card was the Q Club.

Within an hour, we're down at the Q Club, and we reviewed

surveillance video from the night of May 27th

to May 28th.

Homicide detectives Alex Argiro and Randy Rose find

video footage of John at the at the nightclub.

Everything seems normal.

There's no violence, no conflicts.

Then we started watching a video from outside

on the sidewalk when he left,

and we see two separate individuals, one looked

like a male, Black, the other one looked like he could have

either been a male, White, male, Hispanic,

actually watching John walking up north, away from the Q.

So after that, we see the same two guys walking

a block or so away, where they ultimately approached John.

We then observe Mr. Umberger with these two

unidentified individuals walk out of the field of view

of the camera about 5 in the morning.

With that, we go back to the office.

We call the 19th precinct, and we say, "Hey, did you do

"a canvass looking for any surveillance video

in the vicinity of his residence?"

And the 19th squad had done a video canvas,

and they recovered some video.

At about 6 in the morning,

a red Dodge Durango pulls up,

and John gets out of the car with these two same males

that we saw on the video in front of the Q,

and they all go inside, all three of them,

to John's townhouse building.

About an hour later, the two unidentified

individuals leave the townhouse, get back in this red Durango,

and leave the location.

And we were like, "OK, these are probably

"the last two guys that saw him alive,

so we have to identify them."

So we concentrate on that red Durango.

Automated license plate readers are everywhere

in New York City.

They're at every major intersection.

I was able to use the license plate readers

to figure out that it had a Florida license plate

that was registered to a rental car company in Battery Park.

I contacted the rental car company, and they were able

to provide me with a photocopy of the driver's license

for the person that rented the car.

That was Robert DeMaio,

who looked really, really similar to one

of the two people that we had seen on surveillance video.

The rental car company was also able to provide

video footage of the actual rental.

And by luck, we see this guy renting the car wearing

the same clothing that he was wearing in the videos

on the night that he was with John Umberger.

We started looking into Robert DeMaio, and he had

some prior arrests, um, nothing really crazy.

With 34-year-old DeMaio identified, detectives dig

deeper into John's financial transactions.

In addition to fraudulent purchases at liquor

and retail stores made after John's death,

there are several direct transactions to a phone number.

There were several transactions to the total

of like $1,400 made from John's American Express card

to a Jayqwan Hamilton who lives in Brooklyn.

Jayqwan Hamilton matches the description of the person

that we saw in the video with Robert DeMaio and John Umberger

both outside the Q and in front of John's building.

Jayqwan Hamilton does have a criminal record.

Theft, domestic battery, but nothing

that screams murderer.

Then Detective Rose makes a stunning revelation.

I found financial transactions going to that same phone number

belonging to Jayqwan Hamilton

from Julio Ramirez.

Apparently, Jayqwan Hamilton had conducted

financial transactions with both deceased individuals'

credit cards after they died.

That's not a coincidence.

The big question is, were they victims of homicides,

and how do you prove it?

How do you know that they didn't voluntarily

ingest the unknown drugs that ultimately killed them?

Because remember, there's still no determination

via the medical examiner for cause and manner of death

in both cases.

So the only other way to determine this would be

to find other victims, assuming that there were

other victims who survived.

And we were gonna do that by following the money.

Detectives Argiro and Rose investigate the bank accounts

of Jayqwan Hamilton and Robert DeMaio,

specifically looking at incoming funds in the past 12 months.

We started looking at who funds came from to see

if these folks were victims of crimes.

Quite a few of them were.

Quite a few of them reported going to a nightclub,

going home with somebody, passing out, waking up,

and then realizing property was missing, cards were used,

or that their phones were stolen and used

without authorization.

Looking through the case files, I find some video

from March of 2022 where...

Jayqwan Hamilton is with an unidentified male

talking to a guy outside a hotel for what seems like 30 seconds.

And then they're wheeling this guy in completely unconscious

on a luggage cart past the front desk,

into the elevator,

upstairs into his hotel room.

And then they come out, the two of them,

a couple of minutes later, like nothing happened.

Somehow they convinced the woman at the front desk

that the man had simply drank too much.

But the whole thing is so incredibly brazen.

Luckily, the guy on the luggage cart did not die.

And when he calls the cops, he says that when he woke up,

he saw his phone's gone, his credit cards are gone,

realized immediately that he had been robbed.

But at that point, they had racked up

all these charges on his credit card.

As we're going through those records, we're finding

that money is going from Robert DeMaio

and Jayqwan Hamilton's accounts to several other people

profiting from all of these robberies.

By following the paper trail, they discover that there's

three other men involved, Jacob Barroso, Shane Hoskins,

and Andre Butts.

Based on financial transactions, about 15

other victims were tied to this crew, and without a doubt,

they targeted gay males.

In the spring of 2022, the crew is believed

to have stolen tens of thousands of dollars

from their victims.

So at this point, we have to, as expeditiously as possible,

prove a murder case, knowing that these people are

out there and that this might happen again.

So we were able to establish probable cause on Robert DeMaio

for one of the non-fatal robberies.

So we figured out that he lived in downtown Brooklyn-- Dumbo.

And we tried to track down Robert DeMaio, and the hope was

that when that happened, he would be arrested

and we would be able to take his phone as evidence

for that non-fatal robbery case and hopefully do

a search warrant on it and learn a little bit more

about how and why all these cases went down.

By Independence Day of 2022, detectives catch a break.

Fourth of July, I'm in my backyard barbecuing

and my phone rings,

and I got a call telling me that Robert DeMaio

was apprehended in the 84th precinct,

and he was gonna be out of custody in 24 hours.

I looked at my wife and kids, and I was like,

"Yo, I gotta go to Brooklyn right now."

And I left and got to the 84th precinct

and sat down and chopped it up with Robert DeMaio

for about a half an hour.

And somehow during the interview, John's case

did come up. It just led that direction.

I wanted him to identify Jayqwan.

And I showed him a picture.

And he goes, "Oh, yeah, I know that guy.

I know him as Whoopty."

He wouldn't give me his legal name.

He ends up telling me that he and Whoopty were

in the apartment with John...

and that they had been partying.

And at some point, he hears somebody

snort something.

And then Whoopty comes out and says, "Yo, let's go,"

and they get up to leave, and he saw John conscious

and alive and waving goodbye to 'em as they left.

When DeMaio's phone was forensically looked at

for the grand larceny, Detective Rose found evidence

that proved Robert DeMaio's lying to his face.

So I'm flipping through these pictures on DeMaio's cell phone,

and I see what looks like the photos

that the patrol officers took when they first found

John in the apartment.

And I click on it.

And it's a video of the inside of John Umberger's apartment...

taken by Robert DeMaio with John Umberger

dead on the bed.

And my jaw just dropped.

And I was like, "You gotta be kidding me!"

These guys put themselves in this apartment and filmed it

with this guy dead on the bed next to them.

They just had a blatant disregard for the fact

that they just killed someone.

That's a smoking gun.

I knew that I had these guys .

But in order to prove a murder, you need the medical examiner

to rule the cause of death a homicide.

Because New York City has no cash bail,

DeMaio can only be held for 24 hours on grand larceny charges

before police have to release him.

So DeMaio remains a free man.

But then after several months, the final toxicology reports

for both John Umberger and Julio Ramirez

are completed.

The results showed similar chemicals in their system,

and amongst many were cocaine, fentanyl, and lidocaine.

I've never seen lidocaine present in any overdose

until this case.

And it's what really linked the two toxicologies together.

The lidocaine in itself won't necessarily cause death,

but it, along with the fentanyl,

slows your heart rate, it slows your breathing patterns.

And in these particular cases, the combination was enough

to slow their systems down to such a state

that they just didn't wake up.

The medical examiner said that the substances causing death

were administered by another in the commission of a robbery,

which then the medical examiner will now make

the death certificate a homicide.

Arrest warrants are issued for Jayqwan Hamilton

and Robert DeMaio for the murders of Julio Ramirez

and John Umberger.

While there are approximately 15 surviving robbery victims,

at this time detectives only have enough to charge the men

with robbery for two of those victims

who choose to stay anonymous.

Sometimes people don't report these things because they're

embarrassed, or they don't want their friends and family

finding out about their orientation.

So several of these victims didn't even make

police reports.

Arrest warrants are also issued for Jacob Barroso,

who police believe was the third man in the cab

with Julio the night he died, as well as for Shane Hoskins

and Andre Butts, who received some of the funds

linked to the robberies.

Word spread, and one by one, these perps slowly began

to turn themselves in.

And Hamilton was still on the wind for a while,

but by April 17th, all five suspects are in custody.

These are deadly substances, and it hurt a lot to know

that somebody put that in my brother's body,

and then seeing their faces, it's like, wow, like,

"You are the worst kind of person."

When you see the person who took the life

of your child, you better believe there's a reaction,

and it's one that is frightening.

But anything that I sought to do hurts me

and diminishes John's death.

This is the first time the Manhattan DA's office was

charging a murder case where a drug, fentanyl, was used

as the weapon.

This was a tough case, and it took a lot of effort

and a lot of time and a lot of dedication

getting it ready for trial.

Nearly two years after their arrest,

the trial of Jayqwan Hamilton, Robert DeMaio and Jacob Barroso

begins on January 22nd, 2025.

Over the course of three weeks, the prosecution lays

out their case.

They use surveillance footage, financial records,

and the suspect's own videos of the victims they targeted

during the drug-induced robberies.

We got lucky in the fact that these guys documented

everything on their social media pages,

from shopping sprees with the stolen credit cards,

to the stolen items that they bought,

to the type of cars that they were driving around in,

to their interactions with some

of the non-fatal robbery victims.

These were some very, very predatory

and heinous guys.

And of course, there was the homicide of John Umberger

and the video footage of the death of Julio Ramirez.

Seeing the body cam footage,

that was very difficult.

And also just knowing that it was for shoes and going out

to spas, and they just wanted to live this high life

that they didn't earn. It was infuriating.

The defense concedes that their clients did rob

the victims, but they argue that there's no evidence

proving that they created the dangerous combination

of drugs and gave them to the victims.

I chose not and I do not wish to see the video footage,

but it tells me pretty much all I need to know

about who they are.

They could have saved John, but they left

his dead body there,

and we don't need people like that amongst us.

After four and a half hours of deliberation,

the jury reaches a verdict.

For me and so many others, there was so much prayer

that there would be clarity in the jury's mind.

And then hearing the jury's verdict,

it was like an out-of-body experience.

Good afternoon, some breaking news just into the newsroom.

The three men accused of running a drugging

and robbery scheme in the city have all been found guilty.

It felt good to know that they were gonna get

what they deserved. They were gonna pay

for what they did.

But he's still not here.

And even my mom said something like, "They're gonna spend

"their time in prison, but at least their mom can

still come see them. You know, my boy is gone."

The jury convicted three men who drugged and robbed people

outside of Manhattan nightclubs, two of them

actually died.

These perpetrators are actually more conniving

and heinous than the thug with the pistol.

These folks used deception to hide their true intent,

which was robbery of gay men who ultimately just ran

into the wrong people.

These guys don't see humanity.

They did not see Julio and John as fellow men.

They saw them as a means for them to get

what they wanted.

It's hard to comprehend.

It's also, as a mother, just kind of sickening,

all the work you do to raise a kid, all the love you pour

into it, and to have them killed for what?

To, you know, put a cool video on their social media?

It really breaks your heart.

On May 21st, 2025, Jayqwan Hamilton

and Robert DeMaio are sentenced to 40-years-to-life in prison.

Jacob Barroso, the third perpetrator

in Julio's death, is sentenced to 20-years-to-life.

Justice is an elusive term.

And when you think about justice for someone's death,

there really is no justice.

Perhaps John's death, Julio's death may prevent

other deaths.

It doesn't matter whether you're gay or straight,

don't go off with strangers.

There are bad people in our society, and we do have

to be vigilant and be aware of it.

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John did more in 33 years than most people do in 66.

And so we are very grateful for that.

And he just was an adorable, fantastic human being.

And it was an honor and privilege to be his mother.

We established the John Anthony Clary Umberger Foundation

to help people in our communities

and encourage people to be all they can

and live who they are, to be healthy and happy,

which was John's whole approach to life.

Mm-hmm.

Julio's death has been very hard on my parents,

especially my mom. He's very close with my mom.

I mean, that was--

that was her youngest. That was her baby.

My parents took us to El Salvador.

And this is him riding in the back of a pickup truck

over there.

She's gotten better. I mean, it's been three years.

But she'll never be the same, my mom.

If I could speak to Julio now, I would say to him

how much we miss him and how he was the best brother,

you know? Like, I--

I couldn't be more thankful for my little brother.

My brother was gonna do so much good in this world.

And even in that little bit of time

that he had on this earth, he accomplished so much.

He did so much.

I wanna be like him.

He was a star.

It looked like a hook up gone bad.

This is some kind of sex apartment.

They did swinger stuff.

Eventually, we'll know the truth.

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