Teen crashes car, confesses to murder

WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) - A teenager crashed his car into a telephone pole on Clyde Park Avenue near Grandville Avenue in Wyoming early Thursday morning. He then called police to report the accident, then called back and confessed to a November 2008 murder.

In the succeeding calls to police, the 16-year-old admitted to the accident and then said he murdered a man in the 500 block of Shamrock Street SW in Grand Rapids last year.

Abelino Jeronimo Ramos was shot to death November 21 in the driveway of a home. At the time, police were looking for two men in their early 20s. Witnesses to the shooting said they heard an argument just before gunfire erupted around 2 a.m.

According to his mother, Ramos moved to the area from Guatemala seven years ago, and was 17 when he died.

The teenage driver is being held in a juvenile detention center. Grand Rapids Police Lt. Paul Warwick told 24 Hour News 8 there have been no formal charges against the teen.

The prosecutor is waiting for a couple of things to "be completed." Hence, they are not releasing his name.

Lt. Warwick adds he is unsure if the 16-year-old driver was an associate of the victim.

Lt. Warwick does not believe the 16-year-old had any prior problems with the law.