CA cold case on ‘America’s Most Wanted’ sees arrest in 1993 shooting

SAN CARLOS, Calif. — A 61-year-old lady was arrested in Oklahoma within the 1993 killing of a Northern California store proprietor who was shot throughout a “theft gone incorrect,” authorities stated Thursday.

Rayna Elizabeth Hoffman-Ramos was arrested in Dewey final week in a case that was chilly for practically 30 years. She is in Washington County Jail awaiting extradition to California to face prices within the April 26, 1993, deadly taking pictures of Shu Ming Tang, stated San Mateo County Sheriff’s Workplace Lt. Jacob Trickett at a Thursday information convention.

It was not instantly recognized if Hoffman-Ramos has retained an lawyer who can communicate on her behalf. Officers with the San Mateo and Washington county sheriff’s places of work stated they didn’t know if she has authorized illustration.

Tang, who immigrated to California from Taiwan, was shot as soon as within the chest whereas tending his mom-and-pop store, the Devonshire Little Retailer, within the hills of San Carlos, Trickett stated. He died at a hospital.

“Mr. Tang was a husband, a father and a pal who got here to the US to offer a greater life for his household,” San Carlos Mayor Sara McDowell stated Thursday. “His loss of life shook the group of San Carlos and has remained a subject of debate over time.”

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The killing shocked the quiet bed room group 25 miles south of San Francisco and attracted nationwide consideration after it was featured on “America’s Most Wished” that very same 12 months.

Detectives acquired info {that a} lady was seen leaving the shop shortly after the taking pictures. They adopted numerous leads however the case went unsolved for many years, Trickett stated.

In 2018, San Mateo County Sheriff’s detectives assigned to chilly case investigations reviewed the case, and because of “the development in forensic know-how,” recognized Hoffman-Ramos, who lived in San Mateo County on the time of Tang’s killing, as a suspect, he stated.

Trickett declined to specify how detectives linked Hoffman-Ramos to the murder. He stated she was the one suspect within the case.

Trickett stated Tang’s household has been knowledgeable of Hoffman-Ramos’ arrest.

San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos stated the division thanked the Tang’s relations for his or her assist, and he hopes the “household will lastly get the justice and closure that you just deserve.”