ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A man faces murder charges in the 2017 killing of a man who was working in an Apopka neighborhood, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office announced on Saturday.
According to a news release, cold case detectives served a warrant for first-degree murder on 24-year-old Robby Whittaker for the murder of 62-year-old Elkin De Jesus Ramirez.
Deputies said Ramirez was found suffering from a “mortal wound” in the backyard of a home on Aug. 10, 2017.
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Ramirez’s son told News 6 that his father was was doing electrical work in the neighborhood at the time of his death.
According to the release, Whittaker was already in prison for a commercial armed robbery he committed after Ramirez was killed.
“We never stop working to seek justice for victims,” the sheriff’s office release read in part.
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