Man captured after South Side manhunt hospitalized under guard

YOUNGSTOWN

The man who eluded a massive police manhunt in a Boardman cemetery Thursday morning after shooting at police is recuperating from a gunshot wound.

Luis Cruz Ramos, 30, was shot at about 1:10 p.m. Friday by a member of the U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Fugitive Task Force during a foot chase at Erie Street and Maywood Drive. He collapsed from his wound near the 198 Maywood Drive home.

Ramos had been sought since he drove away from a Campbell police traffic stop just after midnight Thursday, and didn’t stop until he abandoned his van on Interstate 680 south near Lake Park Cemetery in Boardman. Along the way he fired shots at a city police cruiser, striking it twice, and also fired more shots at city police officers trying to lay stop sticks in the road.

“He was a very dangerous individual,” said Peter J. Elliot, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Ohio. Elliot said two task force members, one a trooper with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, found Ramos and gave chase on foot. Ramos pulled a gun and then was shot by the state trooper, Elliot said.

Elliot said Ramos is in stable condition. He is being guarded by police; he was handcuffed when he was wheeled away on a stretcher.

Elliot would not say why marshals were searching in that particular area for Ramos, only that they had information he was there and the neighborhood is not far from the cemetery where he managed to dodge a search by SWAT team members. He was spotted Friday at Lowell Avenue and Rush Boulevard, which is where the foot chase began.

Read more about the capture in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.