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I Survived

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True Crime, Talk Radio

3.2 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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0:00.0	An A&E, original podcast.
0:02.8	This episode contains descriptions of violence.
0:06.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.8	Like, okay, he's got a gun.
0:14.6	He's, he's, obviously he wants the money and I hope he just get the money and
0:21.0	and go, but it wasn't, it wasn't like that.
0:29.5	In March of 1997, Jose Ramirez Gonzalez was 29 years old and had just moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
0:37.0	I came to Nashville, Tennessee to work with my brothers and cousins and construction.
0:43.7	When I moved to Tennessee, I didn't speak.
0:46.7	It was nothing, no English at all.
0:50.3	Just a few words.
0:52.0	While I was waiting for work in construction with my brothers and cousins,
0:57.0	we used to go to a couple of blocks away, it was at McDonoughs, so we used to go for breakfast Sunday morning or Saturday morning sometimes.
1:06.4	And it's one of those days I just, I was talking to the manager in that restaurant.
1:12.0	In my language in Spanish, because I didn't speak any English in that day.
1:16.0	And I asked him if he's going to application for work.
1:19.0	And he just said, yes, you want to work with me?
1:21.0	I can teach you how you working here, and I can give you an application
1:25.3	right now. I say, yeah, it's fine.
1:27.1	Jose was put on the evening shift and had only been working there for three days.
1:33.0	He was closing the restaurant with manager Ronald Santiago
1:37.0	and his co-workers Robert Sewell and Andrea Brown.
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