A Prince George’s County man pleaded guilty to stabbing his former boss to death shortly after being fired, county State’s Attorney Glenn Ivey announced Wednesday.
“It was a crime of passion,” said Ivey’s spokesman Ramon Korionoff. “It was personal. …Using a 12-inch blade is not the method of choice to be far removed from the act.”
On the night of Dec. 6, Fernando Monge, 44,of Silver Spring, was working after hours in his tire shop at 4310 Bladensburg Road in Colmar Manor when recently fired Kandelario Garcia-Ramos, 23, of Langley Park, entered the garage with a mask over his face.
Several surveillance cameras caught Garcia-Ramos as he attacked Monge. The two began to struggle, Monge was able to break free, and he ran to the rear of the shop.
But he didn’t get far.
Garcia-Ramos chased Monge down, pulled a 12-inch blade and repeatedly stabbed him, the surveillance cameras showed.
Once Monge was on the ground bleeding to death, Garcia-Ramos went to the front counter near the cash register just as an employee walked into the shop to fix a flat tire on his car.
When the other employee heard his boss moaning in the back, Garcia-Ramos took off on foot.
The employee called Monge’s wife, who then called police. By the time police arrived, Garcia-Ramos was dead.
That same night, Garcia-Ramos called his sister, confessed to the crime and was arrested at her house two days later.
Although prosecutors had sought to pin Garcia-Ramos with burglary charges on top of a first-degree murder charge, they could never prove he took anything from the shop, Korionoff said. Circuit Judge Albert Northrop sentenced Garcia-Ramos to life in prison for first-degree murder.
“This is a murderer who will pay for his crime in taking the life of a family man and entrepreneur,” Ivey said.
