A recently paroled Pontiac man was arrested in Dallas, Texas, on Friday in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend's uncle in a Pontiac last weekend.
Juan Ramirez Jr., 31, is charged with second-degree murder in the April 27 killing of Gregory Allen Copeland, 69, and assault with intent to murder involving Copeland's niece. has been charged with a crime. Ramirez was arrested without incident at a bus stop in Dallas around 2 p.m. on May 3, according to a statement from the Oakland County Sheriff's Office. He was taken into custody by law enforcement units working closely with Oakland County detectives, the sheriff's office said.
Last Saturday, a sheriff's deputy responding to a call of a man with a knife chasing a woman found Cope stabbed multiple times in the chest and wounded in the basement of a home in the 80 block of Ivy Street just after 6:30 p.m. I found Mr. Rand. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff's office said.
Deputies were unable to locate the assailant, identified as Ramirez, but found a woman in a “highly emotional and agitated state” on the roof of a carport, the sheriff's office said. He said he discovered it. She was identified as the niece of Copeland, who was in a relationship with Ramirez, the sheriff's office said.
“We appreciate the hard work of our team and partners to ensure that individuals who commit this type of violence are held fully accountable,” Sheriff Mike Bouchard said in a news release. “It is clear that you can run, but you cannot hide.”
Mr. Ramirez was released on parole by the Michigan Department of Corrections on December 5, 2023, after serving nearly 10 years in prison for unarmed robbery and home invasion convictions in Oakland County. He was arrested on Feb. 14 for failing to report to a parole officer and posing an “direct threat to the health, safety, or welfare of any person, home, or community,” according to the sheriff's office. He was said to have been placed in a position.
Ramirez will be returned to Oakland County, but first he must appear before a judge in Dallas for an extradition hearing.
