It's a day, officials told Elisha Anderson of the Free Press, that likely wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the victim's daughter, Theresa Ramirez, who spent years seeking justice for her mother, known to many as Rosie.
Ramirez was just 7 when her mother was shot in the head by Juan Cruz in 1989 and said she grew up not talking about her mother's death. As she got older, she wanted answers about what had happened to her mom, whose body was found in a stairwell in southwest Detroit.
"I started to realize I had the right to know," Ramirez told Anderson.
In 2009, she got a call from an official with the U.S. Marshals Service, which had been contacted by Detroit police to follow up on the case.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Aaron Garcia, who is based in Detroit, took on the case, met with Ramirez and began investigating in 2010.
"We knew we were going to have to go find him somewhere," Garcia said.
