27-year-old Andres Bonafacio Ramirez of Echo Park has been sentenced to five years in prison for illegally possessing a gun in a 2016 fight and police pursuit.
On October 23, 2016, Ramirez and several others approached three men outside a bar in Echo Park. A fight ensued and Ramirez pulled out a gun. When Los Angeles police officers arrived Ramirez fled the scene and was shot by the pursuing officers.
Ramirez entered a no contest plea to the charge of one felony count of possession of a firearm by a felon with two priors. He was previously convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in 2011. He received his sentence this Wednesday on February 27, 2019.