Hit and Run Suspect Pleads Guilty

TYLER – In state district court in Tyler Monday, Josue Alejandro Prado Ramirez, 22, pleaded guilty to a fatal hit and run accident in Tyler last June. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He had been charged in the death of Damarion Williams, 11. His body was discovered in the median of Highway 271 just after 8:00am on June 17th. The victim’s mother had called police to report her son missing around 3:00 that afternoon and investigators determined it was the same person. Witnesses gave information that led to Ramirez, who turned himself in at the Henderson County Jail around 7:30 the next night.