he threatened me Mond day he assumed that I was seeing his girlfriend how many rounds he shot like 20 but I just know that he's going to come back eventually not if he's convicted of attempted murder well all I know is that they just got into a fight and Friday December 1st 2023 Lake County Florida the police received a call about a man who had been shot it was an urgent situation and officers were required to respond immediately the motives behind the incident were unclear at the time and no one could have anticipated the truth behind it all I'm Tyler and this is your daily dose of crime oh he skipped off the side is anybody in there is anybody else in here no side oh he shot at both sides yeah where was the car park like right by that were you in the car like my car yeah I was par right there facing which way this way was anybody in the car she was in the car when he she was in the car okay hey how how did he skip around off this side I honestly don't know you said he was follow was he following you rer yeah he chased us was he firing rounds while he's chasing you I don't know you didn't hear anything hit the car I I have a air right now so I can't hear oh no like it came this way what do you think yeah cuz it hit right here too yeah cuz I was backing up so it proba yeah it had to go like that I backed up like all the way till back there and like I used to live in this neighborhood and like my neighbors across the street and then look at this one this so I think is I think what's your last your name yeah I I think they may already have him to call to and is there a gun in this car yeah okay that's yours yeah okay that's that's part of this too that's him yeah that's probably going to be here in there the victim identified as Dion ramlan stated that he had been shot by his friend's ex-boyfriend while they were smoking marijuana in his car bullet holes in the vehicle and the trail of gunfire confirmed the truth of this account but what was the reason behind it all no one shoots without a reason and the officers needed as much context as possible in order to arrest the person responsible and press charges but the deeper story was far more Sinister than anyone had imagined where were you at this happen right right here you were in your car or Outside Inside ins inside the car yeah both of y'all were sitting in the car when he shot at it where's the female did you see who shot at it it was him who's him Brandon brand is her ex-boyfriend yeah you know his last name no I know they probably asked you this stuff but we're we're I know he just uh he threatened me Monday and he assumed that I was seeing his girlfriend I mean his exgirlfriend they broken up a month or two now so me talk about we can talk about it screenshots I didn't get to screenshot his face and he just actually called he was calling me on the way here yeah he this is a number so the female that was in the car doesn't want to right she where she at now she just left do we have her 14 on the call already yeah have you ever seen him yeah I've seen him before okay so you know who he is I know how he looks like he used to he actually detailed my car like 2 years ago and I have a video a slight video of him doing that that's him actually right there did you see the gun he had posted it actually before um Dion claimed that the ex-boyfriend of his friend Brandon Pella had been threatening him over text in fact just 3 minutes before the shooting Pella had called him curiously the shooter had somehow figured out where Dion was parked but how had it been possible could his friend have actually been involved he said he was he said he was parked by that hydrant and his car was facing this way he driving this and so he said that he got out of the car and fired at the car from the front these Tire see these tire tracks oh that's what he pulled off yeah yeah what is that right there he had to use something to hold those cases that's what I'm trying to figure out like what you didn't see the actual gun hell no I got SC I no I know I know I'm just saying if he like you have a gun too right did you shoot back at all no no I didn't have enough time okay I never shot at anybody so do you have any idea how many how many rounds he shot like 20 cuz he had posted an extended clip and I didn't get to screenshot it because he blocked me okay do you have that picture as a gun no he block okay oh here's a round right here I found found a round it's a jacket anyway yeah it hit that truck right there so if if he were to come up like to your car like this and shoot at an angle like this right it'll hit that metal the she off I think he just parked forther down here or something cuz here's another one yeah and for to hit that truck he must have been down here press charges me press charges like I mean yeah we could go to court but I just know that he's going to come back eventually not if he's convicted of attempted murder what we'd like to do is get get you to write a statement for us um but I mean you know one of the things it's going to ask I mean you want you want to press charges against him for you know essentially trying to shoot you I mean I can the girl she doesn't want to get involved I mean I know I mean you're you're the victim of the crime she is as well um if she wants to prosecute you know for for her and you know being a victim as well that's up to her but hey we're we're going to tape off the street we have to we need to yeah Accord in to Dion Pella fired about 20 shots at him though fortunately none of them hit him there was a trail on the street and other vehicles had bullet holes showing how aggressive the attack was the evidence gave officers enough to deduce the type of attack they were dealing with they had to find the shooter but first they needed a statement from Ariana gazr Dion's friend and perella's ex so when you stop right here why did you stop right here we were talking about the whole situation about him GM say he's but had was that the him coming out and pulling up and starting shooting was that the first Contact you had with him today yeah so you hadn't seen him before that or anything today he wasn't like following you up here how did he know you were here because I was with the girl I guess he has her he's tracking her okay exactly obviously our job is to figure out what happened here to get you statements and everything like that ultimately what I so how far away from your car did he pull up to you as close as he can okay he came swung to front and I just slapped it in reverse and back out okay and I spun around so he pulled up to the front of you or the back of you the front when did he start shooting as soon as as soon as he got out he seemed that I was driving off okay he just got out and start shooting so the reason why I'm asking you is because there's a there's a bullet that hit that white truck yeah so I'm trying to make sure to see how this actually went down because like I can see the tire tracks and everything they come all the way out here yeah okay I hav I haven't shot my gun in like freaking no no no no I'm not saying I'm not saying you did I'm not saying you did I'm just saying I'm trying to figure out where he actually was out here yeah because I see the tire I see the tire tracks here and everything but for for that car for that that white truck to have gotten hit yeah he had to have been either shooting from back here or he was way down there by that boat shooting so this what we're going to do man there we're going to put we're going to there's going to there's going to be a lot of stuff what we're going to do here this is going to get taped off see where to do you want to write me a statement or now yeah I could cooperate but I just wanted to get it over with after talking to officers Dion decided to press charges against parella fearing for his safety due to the threats and the possibility that the situation could escalate Dion agreed to cooperate with police to proceed with the case however he could have never imagined this decision would change the course of his entire life you didn't try to defend yourself I did it happened so fast I didn't get a chance my gun is in the department it's unloaded I didn't get a chance to even do anything the girl was screaming like I just I just have to get out of and she was in the passenger seat do you feel like he was trying to shoot you or just or your car um I feel like he was trying to shoot me because he was threatening to drag me like this is today okay that's today do you know his last name I do that okay you you've known him though for a while I known him for like a few years yeah okay I don't know him like personally cuz he he act he had another ex-girlfriend friend and she's like Indian and um they also had like an altercation I I didn't know about it but I had heard rumors about him like like this before okay so yeah I was I I remember he pulled a gun out on his ex-girlfriend and that's just what I know you contacted Ariana which is her ex-boyfriend I mean his ex-girlfriend someone picked her up where'd you pick her up at her house which is the the verie ridge yeah yeah okay and we went situation okay I asked her if he was tracking her and she said she don't know but I already had a good feeling that he did okay do you have any photos of this guy I have like a slight shy shot Dion showed one of the officers the threatening messages and they began to file a formal complaint detailing the events as accurately as possible so the charges could be processed messages call logs photos and any other evidence would be crucial see if there's any movement in the back can you you see your hands sorry is there a Brandon here huh Brandon no who's else in the house besides you me my kids who are your kids and my friend Ariana you scared can you tell her can you tell Ariana to come out here whose white car is that I have that one is my girl okay are you already on you need to step out here for me real quick come talk to me how old are you 20 20 okay what what what's going on tonight have you been here all night no I was with a friend who's your friend Dion who Dion okay what happened with him tonight we were going to hang out to smoke and okay I just honestly don't know what happened after that like everything was just a blur to me meaning what like everything what like whatever happened what happened we were just hanging and then next thing I know a car just holds up and he starts reversing mad fast and then he tell me that whoever it is he considers and then I was like okay whatever okay but what what actually happened though while you guys were in the car he just started driving M fast and then that was it that I remember cuz my back the floor like Stu on the floor all right so listen you're not in trouble right now okay we're just trying to figure out what's going on and we're getting one side of the story and I'm trying to get yours but you're leaving out a big portion of what what took place over there yeah a whole so well all I know is that they just got into a fight and start it's okay you don't have to be nervous you're not you're not in trouble right now okay I just didn't know that they got to a fight and who day and on who's Brandon he's just my ex okay what's his last name his real last name I'm trying to understand what's going on okay and I'm asking for you to help me that's just my ex so what happened with with Brandon's night I wasn't really him I was just on okay we were just pulled up and um we were pulled up like we were just parked up and then okay is Brandon here right now no have you seen him at all this SE after earlier okay fight that you said that they got in when was that couple days ago there was all messages on Instagram though so what happened when while you guys were in the car tonight we were sitting there talking and then I just see like headlights come to the side and then de just starts reversing how F okay so what made him reverse like that someone shooting shots at somebody was shooting at the car okay did you see who that person was cuz I didn't have my glasses on with me okay I wear glasses so I I understand there's a lot going on right now I understand you're nervous you know the cops are at your house pulling you out in the middle of the night asking you questions that's that's a little you talking I understand that's that's nerve-wracking okay I I get that and I also understand that we're talking about you know people who you care about okay I understand that but it's important that you're being honest with me and that you're telling me everything you know okay the officers headed to Ariana's house to get her side of the story and she claimed she'd been in the car with Dion when the shots were fired but she didn't see who the shooter was and deduced it had been her ex-boyfriend because he had been calling her all day her statement seemed to match up with Dion's but there was just something strange about her behavior she appeared extremely nervous avoided eye contact with officers and answered hesitantly and her body language screamed fear she seemed to be hiding something but would the police be able to figure out what it was at the end of the day we've got you know multiple people involved here so this isn't all on you okay what I'm trying to understand though is your you know version of what happened did you recognize the vehicle that pulled out towards you guys no you didn't see what color it was what kind of car it was anything mm honestly everything was really fast I swear to God did you hear any loud like gunshot noises or anything like that yeah like coule okay so you did hear you did hear shots but you didn't see who pulled up no I didn't get to see that because I was rolling I was looking down and then de just P reversing really fast and then everything fell so I'm trying to grab everything and then I heard the shots okay would you would you be willing to write write like down on paper what happened just your version of the story I'm sure okay so do you know who Brandon is MHM have you seen him tonight no is he here no would you have a problem with us coming and looking and see if he's here she was in bed sleeping no I understand I just we have to do our due diligence so I mean so it's your house but we were asking your permission to come and look and see if he's in there I'm sorry she say she doesn't want you don't want to okay it's up to you I mean like like I was saying out by the car I understand it's you know like I said we're waking you up in the middle of the night you know you had a pretty traumatic event happened earlier you know and we don't want you to be hurt we don't want your friend to be hurt we really we don't want anybody to be hurt that's why we're trying to do what we're doing so it's completely up to you if you want to write a statement um you know but the only way we can do our job is with the help of the people that are involved you don't want to right now okay all right you guys have a better rest of your night if you guys see him or he comes here please call us I will I will Gathering as much information as possible officers spoke with Ariana's mother who confirmed that she had seen abusive behavior from Pella before but never imagined it would escalate this far with this information in hand they needed to find Brandon before things went any further the only option left was to arrest him or so the officers thought um so talk to me a little bit more about like how do you know for a fact that it was him because he's the only person I don't all my friend it's like they know I say but I mean is there any physical characteristics of him that you recognize the height his height his height okay do you have any other kind of like incidents today or any kind of like you know road rage incidents or like anybody can you think of anybody else they would want to do something like that no no okay and do you have those text messages or those messages from him can I see those yeah so there was no other communication besides what you shown me okay so that happened he sent me that Monday Tuesday I FaceTime Ariana I was like yo what the hell is happening like what's happening what's going on okay and she's like yo like he feels crazy da da he he's just mad they Fu up and they're not getting back together so how you hadn't physically seen him in this time period at all so that so Monday those messages started where he's like you know yo what's up this that and then today he's messaged you again saying that he's going to find you okay well and then y'all were just out you know chilling riding around like what were weall doing we were just here talking about that same day but you like why were you in this neighborhood cuz I used to live right here okay yeah so y'all just pulled over to yeah because and I had told her like oh like um this like I asked her like does he have your location mhm and she was like no that she don't thinks so so she showed me like find my iPhone that nobody else has her location so I like okay but by my to myself I had a good feeling so I had I was parked like somewhere like in the middle of the neighborhood and I just came around here like okay we just talking about the situation and like her mom knows me her sisters they all know me and then I just feel like here was a same St does he ever go over to her house um like does he like hang out over there or anything he used to yeah you say he used to like you know the last time he was over there I don't know okay Dion stated that Brandon's threats had come out of nowhere with no apparent reason behind them and his relationship with Ariana was just friendship they had only agreed to meet casually to smoke there was no clear evidence suggesting that Ariana had shared her location with her ex but something about her made Dion doubt her innocence I haven't done nothing to this guy like it's just not fair he could be picking on somebody his own size you know like so I mean are you are you and Ariana like dating at all are you just just friend went to high school together we've been best friends for a little few years okay so were y'all out like when you picked her up at the house you just picked her up picked up and came right here or like where else did y'all go today yeah she was trying to tell me to go to she was trying to get tell me to go into her car and I was just like uh just chill my car just listen to some music so but I just want to make sure I get a timeline cuz like when we when you so you pick her up at 12 12:28 from where from her house from her house okay so from her house where' you go I I took her on the backro a little bit cuz we were facing out of my car got you and we just put over here okay she want to smoke you know y'all were cruising around listening to music whatever yeah she put up here bed out a little bit she said she want to smoke so I was like then she said let's go in her car I was like no God knows if he only put a track on her car MH but so came did she talk to him at all while she was in the car when she was in my car he called her and was like where you at and she was like that she's out and I told her don't answer but she freaking answered it and she and he was like okay Bet cuz obviously he had her location did she tell him that she was with you no while he was on the phone no he had her iCloud log in so he seen that I was teally outside picking him up mhm so he has access to her iCloud okay you're saying that he has access to her iCloud so he can look up her phone so mes I got ramlan was now firmly convinced that his friend was involved in all of it the place where they parked wasn't somewhere you could just guess and the timing of pella's last messages indicated that he knew exactly where they were and had planned the attack but none of this would be easy to prove as they didn't have solid evidence to show Ariana's involvement the officers would have to dig deeper hey brother how you do good good I saw that you have cameras your ring camera and the one outside can you see if it captured anything for us should happen between like midnight to like 2: to 3: about 1:30 in the morning it happened 1:30 around that time because I was sleep me and my wife was sleeping and we heard what I thought was somebody knocking on my window so I got up I looked all my windows walked in the backyard I didn't see anything came back in so that's nobody there oh maybe my nephew was coming home from work and I locked him out ah so we went back to sleep got it maybe they just a few hour I'm surprised you didn't come out probably didn't hear it cuz no one it's I heard that no one called it anything yeah because like I said it didn't sound like gunshot yeah I thought somebody was knocking on my window I thought it was maybe my nephew coming home from work and we locked him out I didn't see anything so I said all right you know what yeah maybe it was just something it his thing only goes back to 4:00 a.m. okay that that's fine yeah upon further investigation police had managed to gather phone records emails and social media accounts along with messages that showed conversations proving that Pella and gaj RJ had been in contact to conspire plan and carry out a scheme to kill ramlan with all of the evidence in hand the guilt of both of them was undeniable Brandon Pella aged 24 would be sentenced to 25 5 years in prison with no chance of parole and Ariana gajj age 21 was sentenced to 15 years in prison with the possibility of parole after serving 2third of her sentence