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Duluth man receives life for murdering girlfriend in Marietta restaurant

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The Cobb County District Attorney’s Office said after pleading guilty to murdering his girlfriend in Marietta, a Duluth man, Jose Ramon Lemus, was sentenced to life in prison. 

The Cobb County District Attorney’s Office said after pleading guilty to murdering his girlfriend in Marietta, a Duluth man, Jose Ramon Lemus, was sentenced to life in prison.

According to the DA’s office, on December 6, 2020, Lemus, 53, and his long-term girlfriend Janice Ross, 43, went to lunch at El Ranchero Mexican Restaurant on Cobb Parkway. 

Lemus became angry at Ross for asking about another woman he had been communicating with. Lemus pulled out a gun and shot her in the neck and fled into the woods toward the Marietta campuses of Kennesaw State University and Life University.

Lemus was on the run for about an hour and was apprehended by Marietta police officers with the assistance of a police K-9. Lemus was later identified by other restaurant patrons as well as by his Honduran passport, which he left in a backpack as he fled the restaurant. Ross died at the scene of the shooting.

Several family members of the victim spoke during the sentencing about Ross’ life and the impact of losing her. Her 14-year-old daughter spoke saying, “I need my mom here and she won’t be there. She won’t be at prom or my high school graduation. I won’t ever get my mom back and it hurts. I hope he knows how badly he has affected me.”

As she sentenced him, Superior Court Judge Ann Harris told Lemus, “This was senseless, and it was tragic. You have not just destroyed one life, you have brought destruction on an entire family. I hope that weighs on you for the rest of your natural life.”

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