An A&E, Original Podcast.

This episode contains descriptions of violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

Like, okay, he's got a gun.

He's, he's, obviously he wants the money and I hope he just get the money and go, but it wasn't, it wasn't like that.

In March of 1997, Jose Ramirez Gonzalez was 29 years old and had just moved to Nashville, Tennessee.

I came to Nashville, Tennessee to work with my brothers and cousins and construction.

When I moved to Tennessee, I didn't speak.

It was nothing, no English at all.

It's a few words.

While I was waiting for work in construction with my brothers and cousins,

we used to go to a couple of locks away.

It was at McDonos.

So we used to go for breakfast Sunday morning or Saturday

morning sometimes. And it's one of those days I just I was talking to the manager

in that restaurant and my language in the Spanish because I didn't speak any English in that day.

And I asked him if he's going to application for work and he just say,

yes, you want to work with me, I can teach you how you working here and I can give you an application right now and say yeah it's fine

Jose was put on the evening shift and had only been working there for three days.

He was closing the restaurant with manager Ronald Santiago

and his coworkers Robert Sewell and Andrea Brown.

On the third day, Sunday night, we was working to, I think they close 11. So after 11, we stayed there for another hour probably. I was doing the dishes to leave everything ready for the next day and when we were done

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