Jun 25, 2008 11:16 pm US/Eastern
Justice For Family Of Man Murdered On The Job
BLADENSBERG, Md. (WJZ) ―
There's justice for the family of a Prince George's County father and business owner killed on the job.
Prosecutors have released video of the crime, which happened at a tire shop in Colmar Manor.
Dennis Edwards spoke to the victim's wife.
The sentence is life in prison with all but 40 years suspended. The victim's wife is pleased with the punishment, but still doesn't understand why her husband was murdered.
The security camera video looks like something from a crime drama. It clearly shows 23-year-old Kandelario Garcia Ramos chasing Fernando Monge inside Monge's Bladensberg tire store. You can see Ramos stabbing Monge, the man who earlier fired him from his job, in the back while chasing him through the store. Fernando ran behind a stack of tires, then collapsed and died as Ramos attempted to rob his former employer.
"Now it's hard that my husband is not here, but she thanks God the law, they made him to pay for it," said Hayde Monge through interpreter Rosa Reiz.
Seven months after her husband's death, Monge's wife Hayde struggles to run the store and make a life for their three children.
"It was a tragic, brutal attack and we're very pleased that we got a sentence that's gonna keep him in jail for quite a long time," said prosecutor Glenn Ivey.
Charging documents obtained by
Eyewitness News say Ramos called his sister after the stabbing. He told her he couldn't find any money. She asked why he did it and Ramos said, "Because he treated me like a [expletive]."
But Monge's wife describes Ramos as a disgruntled former employee, someone they had constant problems with. Now she prepares to go on with her life without the father of her children.
"I don't understand about what happened with him, why he did that to my husband. The only think she can say, it's something he cannot fix," Reiz translated for Hayde Monge.
Ramos also pleaded guilty to the use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a murder. Prosecutors say he's to be deported after serving four decades in jail.
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