LI Man Gets 17 Years To Life For Fatal Shooting Caught On Video: DA

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY — An East Islip man was sentenced to 17 years to life in prison on Friday, after fatally shooting another man outside a restaurant in 2021 — which was all caught on camera, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced.

Ismael Rodriguez-Rosado, 29, previously pleaded guilty in June to second-degree murder and other related charges before the Honorable Stephen Braslow.

On Aug. 2, 2021, at about 1:06 a.m., Rodriguez-Rosado and German Ariel Montes De Oca Ramirez, 31, of Bay Shore, were both outside of Mi Nuevo Encanto Restaurant and Bar in Central Islip.

A verbal argument between the two began, according to the investigation.

Rodriguez-Rosado then pulled out a 9 mm pistol and shot Montes De Oca Ramirez four times, killing him, prosecutors said.

A witness called 911 and stated that shots were fired outside the bar, and that they saw a red color Ford Edge SUV traveling southbound on Carleton Avenue away from the scene.

Rodriguez-Rosado drove to a gas station parking lot at the corner of Union Boulevard and Saxon
Avenue in Bay Shore. When undercover police officers spotted the red SUV, they pulled into the gas station parking lot and attempted to block the defendant’s vehicle from leaving.

He then struck the undercover police vehicle as he escaped from the gas station, prosecutors said.

Rodriguez-Rosado then fled northbound on Saxon Avenue while the undercover police vehicle
followed. The pursuit continued onto southbound Commack Road where he began to drive erratically down the center of the road toward oncoming police vehicles, prosecutors said.

The undercover police vehicle then struck Rodriguez-Rosado’s vehicle on the rear driver’s side wheel, causing it to spin and come to a stop. He was then placed under arrest, officials said.

The murder weapon was later located that same evening by members of the K-9 Unit of the Suffolk County Police Department, about one mile away from where Rodriguez-Rosado was
apprehended.

Detectives also recovered multiple surveillance video recordings from around the
restaurant that captured the homicide as it was occurring.

"This defendant shot Mr. Montes De Oca Ramirez in cold blood and without remorse, said Tierney. "As District Attorney, I will continue to do my part by prosecuting criminals
as well as keeping these deadly weapons off the streets of Suffolk County."

Prior to this case, Rodriguez-Rosado was convicted of first-degree attempted Robbery in

2016 and sentenced to two years in prison followed by three years of post-release supervision, prosecutors said.

On June 5, Rodriguez-Rosado pleaded guilty to the charges of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, prosecutors said.

Patch reached out to George Duncan, Rodriguez-Rosado's attorney, for comment.