Suspect in Crash That Killed 2 Had Alcohol-Related Convictions (And was an illegal immigrant!)

The Virginian Pilot ^ | 04-02-07 | JON FRANK AND GILLIAN GAYNAIR

[pgkdan]

Suspect in crash that killed 2 had alcohol-related convictions
By JON FRANK AND GILLIAN GAYNAIR, The Virginian-Pilot © April 3, 2007 | Last updated 7:57 PM Apr. 2

VIRGINIA BEACH – A man accused of killing two high school students Friday night in a car crash has a substantial record of alcohol-related convictions in both Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.

Alfredo Ramos, charged with manslaughter in the Friday deaths of Allison Kunhardt, 17, and Tessa Tranchant, 16, was convicted this year of DUI in Chesapeake and of public intoxication at the Beach.

Ramos, who admitted in court Monday that he is in the country illegally, also was convicted in Chesapeake last year of public drunkenness.

Two 2007 Chesapeake convictions – a seat belt violation and identify theft – appear not to be alcohol-related.

Additional Chesapeake charges – driving without a license and having no insurance – were withdrawn earlier this year.

On Monday morning, Ramos, 22, was arraigned on the manslaughter charges in Virginia Beach Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.

His 25-year-old brother, who lives in Norfolk, also is here illegally and asked not to be identified because of his immigration status. He said he had talked to his brother by phone Friday before the accident and, after learning he had been drinking, warned Ramos not to drive. Afterward, his brother told him he had no memory of the crash. He learned from authorities that he had killed two people, his brother said.

Ramos, who was born in Mexico of Guatemalan parents, has been in the U.S. for about seven years

Most recently, Ramos was employed as a waiter at Mi Casita, a popular Mexican restaurant on Bonney Road in Virginia Beach.

Police said speed and alcohol were factors in Friday’s accident, which occurred at Kings Grant and Virginia Beach Boulevard.

Police spokesman Jimmy Barnes said a 1998 two-door Mitsubishi, driven by Ramos, was westbound on Virginia Beach Boulevard when it crashed into the rear of a 1994 Plymouth driven by Kunhardt.

The Plymouth was stopped at a traffic light at the intersection, Barnes said.

Kunhardt and Tranchant were pinned in the wreckage and had to be cut free before paramedics could tend to them.

One of the girls died at the scene; the other was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at a hospital, Barnes said. Both had been wearing seat belts, he said.

Ramos also was wearing a seat belt and suffered only minor injuries, Barnes said.

On Monday, friends and family of the two victims were planning a vigil for tonight at Mount Trashmore.

Scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., the candlelight ceremony will be held on the Independence Boulevard side of the park. Classmates, family and friends have been invited to attend.

Janice Lane, a minister and Kunhardt’s aunt, will lead a short service.

Kunhardt was a junior at First Colonial High School. Tranchant, her close friend, was a freshman at Kellam High School.

First Colonial Principal Dale Holt said the school has canceled plans to host the “Every 15 Minutes” program on Wednesday and Thursday. The program raises awareness of drunk driving by removing a student from class every 15 minutes as if they had been killed.

“Our kids are living 'Every 15 Minutes’ as we speak,” Holt said Monday.

At Kellam High School, programs on drunk driving already planned for April and May will go on as scheduled, administrators said.

Ramos is scheduled to appear this morning in front of Juvenile and Domestic Relations Judge Deborah Rawls for a bond hearing.

Ramos faces deportation if he’s convicted, according to U.S. immigration laws. People who are deported for criminal convictions have either committed felonies or “crimes of moral turpitude,” including crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and most theft crimes, U.S. immigration law states.

Staff writers Duane Bourne and Lauren Roth contributed to this report.

Reach Jon Frank at 757-222-5122 or at jon.frank@pilotonline.com

[pgkdan]

This is an absolute disgrace. This guy was arrested in January for drunk driving and for driving w/o a license and given a 90 day suspended sentence. Suspended sentence! If this s.o.b. was in jail like he should have been...or even better, deported to Mexico...2 beautiful, young Anerican girls would still be alive!

This guy was in the system...either convicted or charged 7 times and was still permitted to stay in this country!

[dennisw]

UPDATE: The suspect in a DUI suspect that claimed the lives of two inseperable friends was arraigned Monday morning.

Alfredo Ramos, 22, has been charged with two counts of aggravated involuntary manslaughter and is being held at the Virginia Beach City Jail with no bond. 

In court, Ramos admitted that he is in the country illegally, and was working at a Mexican restaurant in Virginia Beach.

Ramos, who speaks no English, remains in jail with no bond.

The accident happened when Ramos, driving a 1998 Mitsubishi, was traveling west bound at a high speed and slammed into the back of the other vehicle. 

Both occupants of the other car, which was at a standstill at a traffic light, were pronounced dead at the hospital.  The driver was Allison E. Kuhnhardt, 17, and her passenger was Tessa C. Tranchant, 16. 

[Global2010]

First off Prayers for all those grieving an offense and taking of life for “nothing” outside of a selfish drunk man.

Second why is illegal and drunk synonymous.

Let us call this crime for what it is a tragedy.

Heck throw in Pedophile too if just “pointing” out the jerk was an “illegal” too.

I have been seeing these odd to me adds on CNN for Recycle and the are huge refuse trucks and the friendly fellow leans out the window and say “think Green”.

(soylant was my thought).

Pgkdan we have gone Global and if you want to still along with others soapbox on illegals you will never be heard. JMO

I would say now is the time to stock, lock and barrel and make “true Christian” friends so we can keep our “gaza american strips” war free.

[pgkdan]

This guy was in the system 7 times in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake. I’m going to make it my mission to drive City Council crazy until they change their policy of dealing with illegals who are involved in ANY criminal activity.

[Global2010]

First off Prayers for all those grieving an offense and taking of life for “nothing” outside of a selfish drunk man.

Second why is illegal and drunk synonomous.

Let us call this crime for what it is a tradgedy.

Heck throw in Pedophile too if just “pointing” out the jerk was an “illegal” too.

I have been seeing these odd to me adds on CNN for Recycle and the are huge refuse trucks and the friendly fellow leans out the window and say “think Green”.

(soylant was my thought).

Pgkdan we have gone Global and if you want to still along with others soapbox on illegals you will never be heard. JMO

I would say now is the time to stock, lock and barrel and make “true Christian” friends so we can keep our “gaza american strips” war free.

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Additional Chesapeake charges – driving without a license and having no insurance – were withdrawn earlier this year.

If you or I were caught in Chesapeake driving without a license and having no insurance, the charges would not be withdrawn, ever! We no longer have country of laws. We have a country of sellout jerks who make it up as they go along.

None of them, not one, Republican or Democrat, is worth the paper they are written on. And even today, we have Republicans supporting that contemptible open-borders jerk named Giuliani. We even have pinheaded FReeper-pretenders backing that putz who supports the illegal aliens.

It is getting bad, folks, real bad.

[Ieatfrijoles]

brilliantly stated.

[AIM-54]

Another illegal... and another ‘ho-hum’ from our government.

[EagleUSA]

Another illegal... and another ‘ho-hum’ from our government.

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Well it makes sense when one remembers that Washington does not work for the American citizen any more. Not for a long time. It is all about votes and power...and to hell with our laws, our soverignty, our country, and the Presidential oath....oh, just send a copy of this to the White House...as if they even care.

[Thrownatbirth]

Alcoholics tend to try the “geographic cure” for their woes. Unfortunately, the U.S. is the destination of choice for many who can’t function sober in their own countries.

[AIM-54]

The White House does not care - not when cheap lettuce is at stake.

[upchuck]

Completely outrageous!

Consider:

• Illegal aliens are pervasive. They are everywhere.
• They kill, per day, more Americans than we loose in Iraq.
• If they're deported they come right back.
• They commit multiple crimes.
• They taunt us with their illegality.
• They drain our taxpayer funded entitlement programs.
• They mock our Rule of Law.
• They have little respect for our culture.
• Our national sovereignty is a joke to them.

Rule of Law: trashed
US Sovereignty: trashed
Democratic process: trashed

You bet I'm pissed!

[Pretty Boots]

Just because you posted it twice doesn’t make it any more coherent.

[pgkdan]

oh, just send a copy of this to the White House...as if they even care.

Good idea. Let them think about how their absolute refusal to deal with our borders and the presence of millions of illegals in our country has resulted in the deaths of two beautiful young Americans as they sat in their cars at a red light! Nobody will care though...can't risk damaging relations with Mexico. They get angry when we complain about crimes commited by their nationals illegally in this country!

[ustanker]

Mr.Bush. is worried about everybody else’s borders but ours.

[Liberty Valance]

Gone.



Tessa Tranchant, 16, left, and Allison Kunhardt, 17, were killed late Friday in a crash on Virginia Beach Boulevard.

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[EagleUSA]

Let them think about how their absolute refusal to deal with our borders and the presence of millions of illegals in our country has resulted in the deaths of two beautiful young Americans as they sat in their cars at a red light! Nobody will care though...can’t risk damaging relations with Mexico. They get angry when we complain about crimes commited by their nationals illegally in this country!

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Washington’s attitude toward illegals is KILLING this country...here are two more that can testify to that FACT.

[Not_Who_U_Think]

There was a similar situation in Atlanta recently, in fact Friday night another (drunk) illegal crashed into another car in a construction zone on I-75, then fled across the interstate only to be run over in the opposite lane. In the newspaper account, it was mentioned that to many hispanic males, it is considered a mark of achievement to be able to down a 12-pack in one sitting.

“We’ve just got to do a better job of educating them to the danger of drinking and driving.” No, just lock their ass up.

[Global2010]

Well thank the Good Lord I don’t answer to your swarmy human sarcastic remarks at the end of the day.

Oh heck I just did.

Dump the Pretty Boots and put on the the active sports foot wear. Just a suggestion.

Then flake off.

[Pretty Boots]

Heh heh heh.

What does “swarmy” mean?