Millville man gets 60 years for wife’s fatal shooting

Edwin Ramos-Rosado will spend 60 years in New Jersey State Prison for the fatal shooting of his wife, Ramy Garcia, closing a Millville case that has weighed on North 4th Street since police found Garcia dead in the backyard of the couple’s home.

The sentence, imposed April 22, follows a January 2026 Cumberland County jury verdict that found Ramos-Rosado, 42, guilty of first-degree murder and related weapons offenses. Under New Jersey law, first-degree murder carries a mandatory minimum of 30 years and a maximum of life, making the 60-year term, for a 42-year-old defendant, a sentence that will likely keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.

Prosecutors said the shooting happened Nov. 2, 2022, after witnesses saw Ramos-Rosado and Garcia struggling over a handgun inside the home. The gun discharged during the fight, and Garcia, 35, was later found in the backyard and pronounced dead at the scene. The couple’s children were home during the shooting and were taken from the scene before Ramos-Rosado fled.

The case moved through New Jersey courts for more than two years after Ramos-Rosado was indicted in 2023 on murder and weapons charges. He was later arrested in Bellmawr after police said he drove away in a silver Mercedes. Bellmawr Police Department officers took him into custody the next morning in a Wawa parking lot in Camden County.

For Millville residents who have followed the case since the killing, the verdict and sentence bring a formal end to a domestic-violence case that turned a home on North 4th Street into a crime scene. The conviction rested on the witness accounts that described the struggle over the handgun, evidence that prosecutors said tied the fatal shot to the fight inside the house.

The sentence also adds another grim data point to Cumberland County’s long-running concerns about gun violence and domestic violence, two problems that often overlap in cases like this one. For Garcia’s family, the court’s final ruling delivers punishment, but not the return of a mother killed in her own home.