Hillsboro (1080 KRLD) - A Denton County grand jury has leveled a felony murder charge against a man who is accused of killing his former lover and taking their child.
Ronald Singer, Hillsboro, is accused of the March 3, 2021 beating of Maria Ramirez in her Carrollton apartment. Ramirez had been displaced by flooding from a pipe break due to the February winter storm. Singer was the father of her child, who had been staying with friends. Singer took the girl from those friends, police said. The incident triggered an Amber Alert.
"Within a matter of hours an alert hotel clerk who realized he had checked the suspect and this young girl overnight saw the Amber Alert, called us, and we were able to recover the girl safely." said Jolene DeVito, spokeswoman for Carrollton Police.
The hotel was in Red Oak and the clerk was a law enforcement student who was working an overnight shift, said DeVito.
Police have not disclosed what kind of weapon was used in the beating and no motive has been released. Singer remains jailed in Denton on a $1 million bond.
The felony murder indictment carries a possible penalty of life in prison with the possibility of parole.
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