Jaxon Van Derbeken of the San Francisco Chronicle reported the incident initially as one of road rage where the shooter reacted to the Bolognas' car blocking his own.
[4][5][6] 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.
[4][2] 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.
[7] 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).
[4][9] Anthony "Tony" Bologna (April 26, 1960 – June 22, 2008) was an Italian American native of San Francisco who graduated from Balboa High School.
[10] At the time of his murder, Tony Bologna worked as a night shift supervisor at Draeger's, a supermarket in San Mateo, and was a youth basketball and baseball coach.
[11] Their eldest son, Michael, was a student at College of San Mateo on his death, having earlier graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School.
[13] In September 2009, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Douglas Largaespada, an alleged MS-13 member, claimed that Ramos killed the Bolognas.
[8] San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris sought a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole rather than the death penalty should Ramos be convicted.
Having been in jail since the preliminary hearings ended, Medina was sentenced to three years of probation on January 12, 2010, with credit for time served but remained held on $1 million bail as a material witness.
[24] Tony Bologna's widow Danielle and other relatives of the slain family members blamed San Francisco's sanctuary city policies for the crime.
[27] Jesse McKinley of The New York Times cited the Ramos case as among several negative consequences of San Francisco's sanctuary policy.
[29] On August 22, 2008, Danielle Bologna and other family members sued San Francisco, claiming that its sanctuary city policy contributed significantly to the three deaths.
[32] Then on September 12, 2024, at a fundraising event in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, Trump criticized Harris's prosecutions of Ramos and other undocumented immigrants.