MR. RAMON GUTIERREZ JR. 45, OF TOMBALL TEXAS PASSED AWAY ON MONDAY JANUARY 24, 2022, WHILE DOING HIS DUTY AS A SERGEANT AT THE HCSO WHEN HE WAS TRAGECIALLY STRUCK BY A DRUNK DRIVER WHICH RESULTED IN RAMON’S DEATH.

RAMON WAS BORN ON JUNE 20,1976 TO PARENTS RAMON GUTIERREZ SR. AND MARIA ELENA GUTIERREZ. RAMON ATTENDED AND GRADUATED FROM CHANNELVIEW HIGH SCHOOL IN 1996. RAMON WENT TO WORK FOR RAY BELLEW AND SONS AND PALLETIZED TRUCKING AS A DIESEL MECHANIC. RAMON LOVED MECHANIC WORK AND TINKERING WITH MEWCHANICAL THINGS. DEEPDOWN RAMON KNEW HIS TRUE CALLING WAS TO BE A (SHEEPDOG) GUARDING THE CITIZENS AS A TEXAS PEACE OFFICER.

RAMON APPLIED AND WAS HIRED AT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AS A JAILER THEN LATER GRADUATED FROM THE SHERIFF’S ACADEMY, IN THE CLASS B1-03, IN 2003. RAMON WORKED AS A PATROLMAN BUT DEVELOPED A LOVE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH INVERSTIGATION. THIS PART OF LAW ENFORCEMENT REQUIRED MANY HOURS OF ADDITIONAL TRAINING WHICH RAMON RECEIVED FROM NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S CENTER FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. RAMON WORKED IN THE SHERIFF’S VEHICULAR CRIMES DIVISION AS A DEPUTY THEN LATER PROMOTED TO SERGEANT ON! JUNE 5, 2020, AND CONTINUED AS A SUPERVISOR IN VEHICULAR CRIMES. RAMON BECAME INTERESTED IN THE SHERIFF’S MOTORCYCLE UNIT AND SUCESSFULLY PASSED A GRUELLING TWO-WEEK POLICE MOTORCYCLE OPERATOR COURSE AND STARTED PARTICIPATING IN MOTORCYCLE ASSIGNMENTS WHICH WERE IN ADDITION TO RAMONS REGULAR DUTIES. RAMON AND HIS COLLEUGES WERE PARTICIPATING IN ESCORTING AN OVERSIZED LOAD THE MORNING THAT HE WAS TAKEN FROM US. RAMON HAD JUST STEPPED OFF OF HIS MOTORCYCLE WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A DRUNK DRIVER. THIS SENSELESS INCIDENT ENDED RAMON’S 20 YEAR CAREER AND CHANGED US ALL FOREVER.

RAMON WAS ACCOMPINIED ON THIS JOURNEY BY HIS HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART, LUPITA. RAMON AND LUPITA WERE MARRIED ON NOVERBER 24, 1996. RAMON AND LUPITA HAVE THREE CHILDREN, NATALIA, ALFREDO AND NOMAR.

RAMON IS PROCEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS RAMON GUTIERREZ SR. AND MARIA ELENA GUTIERREZ. RAMON IS SURVIVED BY LUPITA, NATALIA, ALFREDO, NOMAR, HIS FUR BABY AKELA, AND SOON TO HAVE GAINED A SON IN LAW (CHARLES MILLER), HIS SISTERS PATRICIA RAMIREZ, SEVERA MCGRADY, MONIQUE GUTIERREZ, DANIEL GUTIERREZ, DOMINGA ELVIRA AND MARIA GUTIERREZ RAMON HAS A SPECIAL BROTHER-IN-LAW JOE RAMIREZ. RAMON HAS NUMEROUS NEICES NEPHEWS AND COUSINS.