Murder of the Bologna family

Edwin Ramos was born in 1986 in El Salvador, where he was raised by his grandmother. In 2000, Ramos entered the United States on a temporary visa to live with his mother and two siblings; however, Ramos stayed in the U.S. after the visa expired. On April 2, 2004, San Francisco Juvenile Court sentenced Ramos to probation, after convictions on assault and street gang membership for beating and kicking a man on a Muni bus on October 22, 2003. Four days after sentencing, he assaulted a pregnant woman and her brother. Ramos was convicted of attempted robbery and served probation at the city-run Log Cabin Ranch from June 2004 to February 2005.

After his release, he lived with his mother's sister. He applied for temporary residency but was declined; by then federal authorities had learned that Ramos was in the U.S. illegally. Ramos then married a woman who was a U.S. citizen, applied for permanent resident status, and took a job in construction.

In 2006, former MS-13 leader turned informant Jaime Martinez told the FBI that Ramos killed 21-year-old Norteño gang member Rolando "Chino" Valldares in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Having been a member of the 20th Street MS-13 gang in San Francisco, Ramos later moved to El Sobrante and joined MS-13 ally Pasadena Loco Sureños (PLS). On March 30, 2008, Ramos was arrested after police discovered his car had illegally tinted windows, no license plate, and a passenger named Erick Lopez who tried to conceal a gun that police found was used in a double killing. According to the police report, Ramos cooperated with police, but Lopez ran away but was later caught and arrested. Police had "numerous documented contacts" with Ramos and Lopez and identified both as active MS-13 gang members. Prosecutors declined to charge Ramos due to lack of evidence that he knew about the gun. San Francisco sheriff's deputies called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to determine if the department wanted to hold Ramos in custody, but ICE declined. Provided by Wikipedia