Jose Raul Cardenas-Ramirez, a 36-year-old Hispanic man, was killed on September 23, 2014, at the Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort and Spa in Hoover, Alabama. Staff found his body in an employee-only basement kitchen area in the early morning hours; police treated the scene as a homicide while the resort continued operating aboveground.

Investigators focused on a co-worker, janitorial worker Rayon Bartley, who had been fired the day before and returned to the property after midnight; by morning Cardenas-Ramirez was dead. Authorities said Bartley fled Alabama on a Greyhound bus toward Florida, and U.S. Marshals and local police arrested him at a Greyhound station in West Palm Beach after a brief struggle. He was returned to Alabama and reported to have been charged with murder and transferred to the Jefferson County Jail in Bessemer.

Cardenas-Ramirez was engaged and had a baby; co-workers and family were left trying to understand how a firing and a return visit became deadly. If anyone knew Jose, his routines at the resort, or saw anything around the Ross Bridge property that night, please come forward with information.