DOVER, Pa. — The Northern York County Regional Police Department confirmed the arrest of two individuals in connection to the death of a 67-year-old woman in Dover Borough on June 6.
Officers were dispatched to the area of 79 South Main Street in Dover Borough, York County on June 6 after a neighbor reportedly stated a woman at the address asked her to call the police.
Once police arrived at the scene, they spoke to William Emilio Torres Gautier, 42, and noticed a woman with her two kids who seemed to be signaling for help.
Gautier intervened and struck officers with a section of a wooden fence when they attempted to speak to the woman, Johana Ramos, 31, and was taken into custody after a brief struggle.
Ramos told officers that her mother was home and needed help; a 67-year-old woman was soon discovered deceased in an upstairs bedroom.
Officers arrested Ramos on June 23 and charged her in connection to the crime.
According to officers, Ramos initially said that she had run outside with her children when the attack on her mother started and Torres Gautier told her not to come back inside.
Police say over a week later, they received a phone call from a friend of Ramos who claimed that the woman had confessed to helping murder her mother. When the friend asked Ramos what she would do if police questioned her about helping, she allegedly said she would say she was afraid of Torres Gautier.
Ramos allegedly confessed to her role in the homicide at a scheduled interview with police after her conversation with her friend. A criminal complaint states that the suspect told officers Torres Gautier called her into the room to help him with the tape. Ramos allegedly tried to wrap the tape around her mother's head for several minutes but couldn't do it, at which point Torres Gautier told her to leave.
Gautier was charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault on law enforcement officers, terroristic threats, abuse of corpse, resisting arrest and criminal mischief.
Ramos was charged with criminal homicide and criminal conspiracy to commit criminal homicide.
Both suspects are currently being held in York County Prison.
