Brownsville, TX - If you’re an infant and Pedro Lara tells you to shut up, you better just go on and do it. Or else he’ll shove your head into a pillow until you’re dead. Alyssa Nicole Ramos, 10 months, found that out the hard way Tuesday night. Alyssa was Lara’s girlfriend’s baby. Of course. Then, on examination, the baby was found to have a badly healed broken arm.
Police had interviewed Lara several times because he’d been with baby Alyssa right before she mysteriously fell unresponsive. The preliminary autopsy wasn’t showing a conclusive cause of death, and Lara was saying that he didn’t know anything about a broken arm or how Alyssa died. But on Thursday, Lara fessed up.
“(Pedro Lara) stated that when he got home that night the child was crying and that he put the child face down and put his hand on top of the child’s head and smothered the child,” Sheriff Omar Lucio said. Lara also casually mentioned that yeah, he’d broken the baby’s arm “about four months ago”, too.
Alyssa’s obituary is here (thanks, Justagirl!). Her mother’s name is Jessica Lopez. Juan Ramos is the father. Alyssa is survived by two siblings, Amanda Garcia and Pedro Lara III. And her sister Monica Lopez died at the age of six weeks in 2000. That looks like four kids by four fathers, unless my count is wrong.
Lara has been charged with capital murder, which is death penalty eligible in Texas. He remains at the Cameron County Jail in Olmito.
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45 responses so far ↓
1
Hippiepoet
Jan 27, 2008 at 12:20 pm -Big eared prick.
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mo.armymom
Jan 27, 2008 at 12:26 pm -Well I wonder where the hell the mother was while her baby was crying! I hope she can explain how her baby could have a broken arm for 4 months without her realizing it. Fuckin bitch!
3
dammitall
Jan 27, 2008 at 12:30 pm -Lara’s going to hate prison. I understand it’s not quiet there any time at all.
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Kathy
Jan 27, 2008 at 1:19 pm -A-fucking-MEN!!!
Seriously. I could tell when my daughter was about to wet her freaking diaper at that age!
If nothing else, they should lock the whore up for being a dumb ass.
The death penalty is too good for this guy. Hopefully some vigilante inmate will save the state of Texas some time and money and take care of this fucker.
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impqueen
Jan 27, 2008 at 3:53 pm -I can’t even find a news outlet that is releasing the mother’s name. And you KNOW she has a Myspace.
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Justagirl
Jan 27, 2008 at 5:33 pm -I found the obit.
http://www.trevinofuneral.com/.....p;locid=38
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Justagirl
Jan 27, 2008 at 5:38 pm -She was such a beautiful baby.
I can’t stand reading about these types of stories.
What a fucking piece of shit he is.
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pms.247
Jan 27, 2008 at 5:46 pm -It looks like (from the obit) that this little baby had a half brother from this asshole - AND a sister who predeceased her. It makes me wonder how the sister died.
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impqueen
Jan 27, 2008 at 5:52 pm -Great find on the obit, Justagirl
I can’t find the mom’s Myspace, there are a lot of Jessica Lopezes in Brownsville but none who match her age or kids.
I’ll get Alyssa’s pic up right away.
And.. i was wondering how Monica (Alyssa’s sister) died, too. Still birth, or what? I’ll check it out.
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impqueen
Jan 27, 2008 at 6:19 pm -From the Brownsville Herald obit archives:
BABY MONICA J. LOPEZ
Baby Monica Jonai Lopez, six weeks, died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2000, at Driscoll
Childrens Hospital in Corpus Christi.
Survivors include her mother, Jessica Michelle Lopez of Brownsville;
grandparents, Juan Antonio Lopez and Maria Elena Lopez both of Brownsville;
great grandparents; Pedro Lopez and Francisca Lopez both of Brownsville and
Rafael Pineda and Maria Pineda both of Corpus Christi; her godfather,
godmother, several aunts, uncles and cousins.
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Justagirl
Jan 27, 2008 at 6:30 pm -Good find Imp!
I wonder what the COD was. I sincerely hope it wasn’t anything like this.
I can’t find ANY additional info on the mother… just that in an eight year span she has had three children all with different last names…
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WryBread
Jan 27, 2008 at 6:51 pm -From the obituary, our “angel … passed away surrounded by her family …” ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I guess it would be too brutal to say “died at the hands of babymama’s babykillinbf?”
This poor little baby did look like an angel. You know this guy had used this technique before — or worse — to shut her up. But hey, it wasn’t his spawn, so just kill it.
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crunchieapple
Jan 27, 2008 at 9:16 pm -I wasn’t going to post a comment…until I saw a photo of the baby! Now I want to cry…that really tugs at the heart strings.
Another sad story of a little baby murdered by another ASSHOLE!
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solange822001
Jan 27, 2008 at 9:49 pm -Im confused. Alyssa was 1o months old, and this guy Lara wasnt the dad. But the mom had a baby by this guy, so how old is that baby? One month old? She had them literally back to back? Or is the brother older and she was going back and forth between Lara and another dude/dudes?
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impqueen
Jan 27, 2008 at 10:26 pm -Actually I *think* that only three of the children were Jessica’s. The brother is Pedro Lara’s child, but I don’t know if Jessica is the mother. Now watch me be wrong - it’s kind of confusing to me, too.
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Miss. Hill
Jan 27, 2008 at 10:29 pm -Well there is no better way to keep a new man then to get pregnant. Usually if possible with his baby or whoever else you are fucking will do if necessary. This works every time, unless your new babies daddy likes quiet and step child gets in the way he may end up in jail and you will have one less child. Do not fret you can have another with new man asap.
Fucking sick. What ever happened to protecting your children?
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WryBread
Jan 28, 2008 at 12:15 am -Thanks for saying that, Imp. I thought something was happening to my mind because I can’t keep these family tree-tangles straight. It’s like a dick in every orifice and a baby coming out of some.
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warrman69
Jan 28, 2008 at 9:31 am -Too bad you can’t decided who is going to be your mom and dad, people like this would never have kids.
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momoftwins
Jan 28, 2008 at 2:34 pm -How did Mom not know the baby’s arm was broken? Also it takes a lot of force to break a baby’s arm, more than an adults because babies bones are more rubbery. What a souless douche. He doesn’t even look sorry.
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noneofyabiz
Jan 28, 2008 at 4:27 pm -ok for all of those who just go on about the babies mother n family…u all shouldn’t suggest or even know what happened to make such comments..
for one he got in the home without her permission he stole her keys.
next the broken arm was taken care of and was blamed on the HIS son “alyssa’s brother” while under the care of his fucking mother n family. While the mother was working to care for her CHILDREN so NO she did not suffer in pain without being taken to the hospital that same day.N yes cps investigated the situation as did the police and by them it was determined to have been the brothers fault…so i just wanted to shut some people up.n another thing her first baby was not abused as u all already investigated the whole fucking thing why couldn’t u all find out she was born with birth defects and had nothing to do with ABUSE. N as for the mother she had nothing to do how the fuck r u to know that ur ex bf who is not suppose to enter ur home without permission was gonna do a tragic thing like that. So u all should have better or be better investigators n tell the fuckin truth. Not make it seem as if she was not loved or taken care of.
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momoftwins
Jan 28, 2008 at 4:34 pm -Wow. Am I the only one who sees some holes in this story? If he broke in then who was watching the baby and where were they when he suffocated the baby? Also that really doesn’t answer the question of the baby’s broken arm, as the article says the broken arm was badly healed and if they had sought medical attention then that wouldn’t be the case.
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noneofyabiz
Jan 28, 2008 at 4:42 pm -the mother was FUCKIN ASLEEP when he did that to the baby he broke in! The fucking news never has it straight. I KNOW WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED why dont u call cps ur self and ask? And if the baby wasnt taken care of then why was she recieving PHYSICAL THERAPHY for her ARM. SO i need no more to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh and NOT TRUE the baby was not CRYING as he says … the baby’s crib was next to mothers bed U THINK SHE WOULDNT HAVE HEARD .HE just did it, IN that he’s lying im telling ya dont believe the news!!! but whatever
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momoftwins
Jan 28, 2008 at 4:49 pm -Ok first of all maybe you could stop swearing so much as it makes you seem very uneducated. Second, you really expect us to believe that he broke in and grabbed the baby from the crib next to her mother and suffocated her for no reason… it’s very fishy…but maybe I am wrong and it makes perfect sense to everyone else.
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WryBread
Jan 28, 2008 at 4:52 pm -First, of all “fucking asleep” sounds like very dull sex to me.
Second, these text-message posts show the limits of this style of writing. It’s all very nice for a quick “fuck u” or “ya tink ur ex bf nos cps outdoor??????” But it doesn’t hold up well for lengthy messages. Notice how the first post deteriorates nearly to single alphabet letters as the post-ers brain begins to malfunction under the stress of writing a series of thoughts and accusations?
25
Morbid
Jan 28, 2008 at 4:53 pm -Hey, Noneofyabiz, did he break in with the sole intent of killing the kid? Was he mad at the mother or something?
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momoftwins
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:04 pm -I did notice that, actually. Should we blame drugs, or alcohol, or maybe we should blame ebonics?
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Ruby
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:15 pm -I’m very confused.
So, he was not allowed in the home. He stole the mom’s keys. He broke into the home, WHILE the family was home. But little Alyssa was crying. So he smothered her in the bed immediately adjacent to where the mom lay sleeping. But then the police questioned him and he couldn’t answer what happened to her. Then, all of a sudden, he confessed to smothering her.
It doesn’t make sense. Unless, as our articulate friend Noneofyabiz says, the baby never cried and he simply broke in to kill the baby. Weirder things HAVE happened, to be sure, but I’m not really buying it.
I think we need to find the affadavit/police report to know whether the media has it wrong or not…
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noneofyabiz
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:17 pm -ACTUALLY I AM NOT THE MOTHER BUT DO KNOW HER WELL , AND NO THERE WAS NO DRUGS INVOLVED. WHEN PEOPLE GET UPSET FOR READING COMMENTS BY PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO CLUE WHAT REALLY HAPPENED…THEN THERE IS WHERE THE BAD LANGUAGE COMES FROM NOT FROM ANYWHERE ELSE JUST DO YOUR JOB N GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT THATS ALL I AM GONNA SAY
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WryBread
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:22 pm -I guess Ebonics is the source of gangsta slang and grammar. Don’t know if there has been any studies of this. I think the abbreviations come from the difficulty of typing on little machines and an insatiable need to replace the effort of creativity with mere novelty. But texting “fuck u” or the even more efficient “fuk u” or “fku,” while clear, is not a message of complexity. Noneofyabiz shows us what happens when things get beyond the “fku” stage.
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momoftwins
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:22 pm -Ok, well can you please explain the story? Why did he break in just to kill the baby, and how did the mom not know if she was right to them? And what happened to the baby’s arm because he admitted to breaking it?
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momoftwins
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:23 pm -All I have to say is “Word”. Or maybe “True dat”
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Old Man Metal
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:29 pm -Um, your caps-lock key is stuck.
To make matters worse, he’s gonna be the one getting his face shoved into a pillow.
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Kathy
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:44 pm -Nonofyabiz.
I call bullshit. Your story has so many holes in it. If this is the story you got from the mother, she needs to work on it or you need to ask her to explain it over to you again. Internet bloggers can see right through it, I’m sure the prosecutors will too.
Or maybe, you should let an ADULT get on here and explain the “truth” to us. My pissed teen to English dictionary is missing.
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aspartame
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:48 pm -hey Mami-of-twnz - i got ya back!
much luv - Asp
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ashdavus
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:48 pm -Did I miss something. I don’t RECALL anyone posting claiming you were the mother. Reminds me of a story my dad used to tell about asking a guy simply “Where is it?” and getting the response “I didn’t steal your damn gun!” Now how would he have known that my Dad was looking for a stolen gun from the simple question he was asked unless he was the one who stole it. Interesting…
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taintfutcha
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:56 pm -i find it terribly hard to swallow (not a swallower) that there are so many “friends of family” speaking up for the different individuals in all these stories. smells like troll shite stew.
and why are all the defenders so bleating ill edumacated? sorry state of affairs.
maybe i’m a tad cynical-
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ashdavus
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:58 pm -either that or you have the tracking ability of a bloodhound. LOL.
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dammitall
Jan 28, 2008 at 6:09 pm -I dunno–he might actually like that part, regardless of all protestations to the contrary.
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WryBread
Jan 28, 2008 at 6:24 pm -Youth of America! Study the rules of capitalization! Then you won’t have to cover your ignorance by typing in all capital letters! Heed this advice! It will help you make friends and influence people, or, it will at least make you look less foolish when you’re trying to appear powerfully articulate!
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impqueen
Jan 28, 2008 at 7:24 pm -Dang, I go in for a little machete to the jaw, and when I get out, lookit what came to visit.
So, okay, I checked it out. And here’s what I got from Sheriff Omar Lucio’s people: Lara stated that “when he got home that night the child was crying and that he put the child face down and put his hand on top of the child’s head and smothered the child.”
From that, I get the following:
Jessica was either home and not watching the kids (asleep), or she was out and had left the children with someone else. One source I spoke to seems to think she was working and he picked the kids up from daycare and took them home. There was no mention by anyone that Lara broke into the house, and he has not been charged with trespassing, so obviously he still lived in the home.
Either he killed baby Alyssa just for fun, or he killed her because she was crying. It’s a moot point, doesn’t really matter. Either way the baby’s dead.
If Jessica was home, how the hell did she sleep through him coming into the home and into her room and killing her child? If she could sleep through that with children in the house, they’d have died of neglect anyway eventually. A baby being smothered will struggle and make noise trying to breathe. So if he did with the mother right there, that’s even worse than if he did it with her at work.
But while we’re at it, how many kids does Jessica have, and by how many fathers? How old is she? Do you have a Myspace?
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Justagirl
Jan 28, 2008 at 9:39 pm -According to the “inmate information” from the Cameron County Sheriff’s Department website, they have not charged him with breaking and entering …
http://www.co.cameron.tx.us/ea.....UD0450.HTM
NONEOFYABIZ - As far as saying DD needs to do better investigating, Impqueen reported what she found. I’m sure she’s *very* sorry she didn’t include your delusions in her report. Ask her for an apology …
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Miss. Hill
Jan 28, 2008 at 10:31 pm -Hahaha
Another good one. I’m all for the Myspace page always amusing!
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Justagirl
Jan 28, 2008 at 11:12 pm -Interesting… why would an admitted baby killer lie about breaking a child’s arm??
You’re saying he didn’t break her arm … he just lied about doing it. What is he writing a resume?!?! I’ll just add in baby arm breaking as one of my many talents…
Give me a break!
I don’t recall reading a comment where ANYONE said the other child was abused. I said I wonder what the COD was. If you’re too retarded to understand that, it translates as follows: I wonder what the CAUSE OF DEATH was. I followed that up with, I sincerely *hope* it wasn’t anything like this.
NEVER did anyone say it was because of abuse. You brought that up, not us.
Again … he admitted to killing, why would he LIE about whether the baby was crying. He was already caught. He admitted to killing the baby - whether or not the baby was crying is not going to make a difference.
Personally, I think the “bad language” comes from your lack of a brain. Find one first, sort the story out, and then come back.
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Justagirl
Jan 28, 2008 at 11:13 pm -OMG! No pun intended!! I swear!
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Wonder
Jan 29, 2008 at 3:15 am -the obit link dont work i am glad u copied here… maybe someone that knows them can explain is Pedro III older then Alyssa
one thought maybe he killed Alyssa cause her daddy wasn’t paying his child support.
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