On August 8, 1997, 41-year-old Hispanic male Gregorio Ramirez was fatally shot during an attempted robbery in an apartment parking lot in Houston, Texas. His widow later identified the assailant as Franklin DeWayne Alix, an African-American male born August 6, 1975. Alix was 22 at the time.

That shooting is described as the start of a violent six-month crime spree in which Alix is reported to have committed at least three additional murders, two attempted murders, nine robberies, two rapes, and four kidnappings, mostly at apartment complexes and often targeting people in parking lots. Alix was arrested January 6, 1998; later charged and convicted in the case of a subsequent victim.

Does anyone have additional details about Gregorio Ramirez, his life, or witnesses to the August 8, 1997 parking-lot shooting?