Local : Newbury Park Attack Victim Dies
The manager of a Radio Shack store in Newbury Park, who was beaten on the head with a stepladder, died of her injuries, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department reported.
Stephanie Ann Ramos, 27, of Ventura died Tuesday night while connected to a life-support system at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, where she was taken after the attack at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Sgt. Bruce Hansen said.
Rossano Barin Santonil, 27, of San Diego was arrested shortly after he allegedly struck Ramos in an apparently unprovoked attack, authorities said. Investigators remained unable to determine a motive for the attack at the store in the 700 block of Wendy Drive.
Lt. Joe Harwell of the department’s Major Crimes Unit said Santonil had apparently been hitchhiking from San Diego to San Francisco and stopped in Newbury Park on Monday morning. Santonil was to be arraigned on a murder charge today in Ventura County Municipal Court.
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