Nazario Ramirez, 54, of Lancaster, California, was one of three people found shot to death on August 17, 2025, on a remote stretch of desert east of the city. Deputies responded around 4:48–4:50 p.m. to reports of gunfire near 215th Street East and East Avenue Q/East Palmdale Boulevard and discovered two men and one woman dead inside two vehicles at the roadside. The county medical examiner ruled Ramirez’s manner of death homicide due to multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators describe a sequence in which a shooter in a passing vehicle allegedly pulled alongside a car carrying Ramirez and Juan Arteaga Díaz and opened fire, then drove to a second vehicle and shot Beverly Cassese, 65. Authorities characterized the attack as brazen and unprovoked on a desolate corridor where there were no known witnesses. No motive has been disclosed.

Did anyone in the Lancaster or Lake Los Angeles area see a silver Nissan Altima or other vehicle near 215th Street East that afternoon?