Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that Ramon Lyons, 16, of Huntington Station, was sentenced to 12 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to Murder in the Second Degree, for fatally shooting 21-year-old Luis Cameron Rimmer-Hernandez in August 2021.
“At only 14 years old, this defendant senselessly took Cameron Rimmer-Hernandez’s life away from him. My office recommended that this defendant serve the maximum sentence under current New York law, which is 15 years to life in prison,” said District Attorney Tierney. “While courts take a juvenile’s age into consideration at sentencing, we must never forget to consider the loss of the victim’s life and the pain that loss causes their loved ones. Our hearts go out to the Rimmer-Hernandez family and his friends.”
According to court documents and the defendant’s admissions during his guilty plea allocution, on August 9, 2021, the victim drove to Lowndes Avenue in Huntington Station to meet up with some friends. Lyons, then 14 years old, ran up to the victim and fired approximately seven shots from a 9 mm handgun, striking the victim multiple times in the chest and arm. Lyons then ran to his apartment, less than half a mile away. Lyons made admissions to the homicide on social media prior to his arrest.
On October 18, 2023, Lyons pleaded guilty to Murder in the Second Degree, a Class A violent felony, before Acting Supreme Court Justice, the Honorable Karen Kerr. On November 13, 2023, Judge Kerr sentenced Lyons to 12 years to life in prison. Lyons was represented by Matthew Tuohy, Esq.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Frank Schroeder and Sheetal Shetty of the Homicide Bureau, with investigative assistance from Detective Michael Ronca of the Suffolk County Police Department’s Homicide Squad.
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