Convicted Murderer Sentenced In Separate Bridgeport Illegal Gun Case

BRIDGEPORT, CT — A 34-year-old Bridgeport man, who was convicted of murder in 2005, was sentenced this week to six years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon, announced U.S. Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery.

Ortexis Ramos was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford. He has been detained since his arrest in September 2022, and pleaded guilty to the gun possession charge in November 2023.

According to court documents and statements, Bridgeport Police encountered Ramos in September 2022, when he was a passenger in an unregistered car that was stopped at the intersection of Ridge Avenue and Walnut Street.

"When officers ordered Ramos to exit the vehicle, he attempted to flee," Avery said in a statement. "Ramos was apprehended a short distance away, and a search of his person revealed a Taurus G2C 9mm semiautomatic handgun with a high-capacity magazine that was loaded with 9mm ammunition."

At his 2005 murder conviction, Ramos was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and he was on state parole at the time of his arrest in September 2022.

According to authorities, it is a violation of federal law for a person previously convicted of a felony offense to possess a firearm or ammunition that has moved in interstate or foreign commerce.

Ramos' case was investigated by the FBI’s Bridgeport Safe Streets Task Force and the Bridgeport Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ross Weingarten and Karen L. Peck through Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts.

PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime.