Daly City man pleads no contest to attempted manslaughter for stabbing man with whom wife had affair

A Daly City man pleaded no contest to attempted voluntary manslaughter after using a knife to attack the man he determined having an affair with his wife in their bedroom with his three young children looking on Wilber Ismael Ortez Ramos also pleaded no contest to enhancements for great bodily injury and use of a deadly weapon according to the San Mateo County District Attorney s Office He will face a maximum of seven years in state prison The DA s office was initially seeking a maximum sentence of years and eight months prosecutors added We were asking for a good number of years the judge put a seven year max on it top on it reported San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe The prosecutor felt that that would more than adequately cover it Ortez Ramos was originally charged with attempted first degree murder with enhancements for causing great bodily injury in a domestic violence occurrence and use of a deadly weapon prosecutors disclosed He also faced charges of mayhem for disabling or disfiguring a body part as well as assault with a deadly weapon threatening death or great bodily injury and three counts of child endangerment prosecutors declared In September a judge ascertained that the evidence was insufficient to charge Ortez Ramos with attempted murder and the allegation that the act was premeditated and deliberate prosecutors revealed Ortez Ramos wife did not want prosecution to continue leading to the dropped child endangerment charges and the victim was content with the seven-year sentence Wagstaffe added His wife required the matter to go away so we figured we ve got a charge that gives us the sentencing range the court wants and that will adequately cover the conduct here for what we have in terms of the onlookers Wagstaffe added Paul Wilkins Ortez Ramos defense attorney did not respond to a request for comment On May Ortez Ramos returned home to find his wife having an affair with a co-worker Jeronimo prosecutors disclosed Ortez Ramos searching his bedroom ascertained Jeronimo naked under the bed Ortez Ramos ordered Jeronimo to come out from under the bed then exited the bedroom and returned with a -inch knife prosecutors stated He stated three times that he was going to kill Jeronimo Ortez Ramos pushed his wife out of the way and swung the knife at Jeronimo s face as his three young children aged two five and six looked on prosecutors commented Jeronimo blocked the blow with his arm and the knife cut a deep gash and severed three tendons No daddy don t one of the children shouted just before he swung the knife prosecutors added Related Articles Alameda DA seeks to dismiss circumstance against former San Leandro cop in killing of Steven Taylor Judge orders Trump to end California National Guard troop deployment in Los Angeles Lawsuit challenges California s ban on less-lethal pepperball weapons Judge denies motion to exclude term genocide from Stanford felony vandalism trial Attorneys balance use of powerful AI tools with risks including legal hallucinations Jeronimo was able to grab the knife away from Ortez Ramos and he then fled the apartment and went to the Broadmoor Police Department parking garage where police ascertained him by following the -foot-long trail of blood he left in his wake prosecutors added Jeronimo s injury required stitches and surgery to repair the tendons to regain functionality in his fingers prosecutors added Ortez Ramos will next appear in court Feb for the imposition of his sentence