Man Sentenced For 2012 Northwest Ogden Market Beating Death
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 10:15 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
WASHINGTON, DC.- Last Friday, a 27-year-old Washington, D.C., man, currently detained in the D.C. Central Detention Facility, was sentenced to two decades in prison for the 2021 brutal and unprovoked beating death of a 38-year-old man that occurred outside the Ogden Market in Northwest, D.C.
According to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro, on Friday, September 12, 2025, Alvin Alex Cruz Garcia, 27, of Washington, D.C., appeared in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Todd Edleman to 240 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction for the murder of Ramon Gomez Yanez.
On June 6, 2025, following a four-day trial in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, before the Honorable Judge Edleman, a jury found Cruz Garcia guilty of second-degree Murder While Armed.
According To The Evidence Presented During The Trial
According to the evidence presented at trial, on March 28, 2021, just shortly before 8:30 p.m., Ramon Gomez Yanez, 38, parked his car and made his usual stop at the local food market, Ogden Market, located at 1500 Ogden Street in Northwest, D.C. When Mr. Gomez returned from inside the market, Cruz Garcia was standing on the sidewalk and urinating close to the back of Mr. Gomez Yanez’s vehicle…