'It is a miracle she survived.' Man sentenced for stabbing 75-year-old woman inside Morris Heights apartments elevator in 2024
Edwin Rios will serve 15 years behind bars and five years post-release supervision for ambushing Zonona Ramos inside an elevator on Easter morning, leaving her with a punctured lung and permanent nerve damage.
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Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark says that a Bronx man was sentenced for stabbing a 75-year-old woman inside an elevator at her Morris Heights apartment building in 2024.
Edwin Rios will serve 15 years behind bars and five years post-release supervision for ambushing Zonona Ramos on Easter morning, leaving her with a punctured lung and permanent nerve damage.
Rios, 40, followed Ramos into the elevator at around 11:30 a.m., where he stabbed her repeatedly in the head and body, according to court documents.
The NYPD arrested Rios and charged him for trying to kill someone in a separate incident in 2013.
"For no reason, he viciously attacked a 75-year-old woman in an elevator of her building,” Clark said. “It is a miracle she survived. She is, however, still dealing with physical and emotional trauma two years later."
News 12 spoke with Ramos days after the brutal attack.
"He hit me everywhere, and when his knife fell to the floor I pushed it by mistake…and then he picked it back up, and I thought he was going to kill me with that knife," Ramos said.
Paramedics rushed Ramos to the hospital, where she says she received 40 stitches on her hands alone, excluding those she needed on her face and head.
She spent two months receiving treatment in a nursing facility after the attack, prosecutors say.
Rios pleaded guilty to attempted murder on June 1.
