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FBI most wanted suspect in deadly Federal Way bar shooting captured in Mexico

Samuel Ramirez Jr. was captured in Mexico just 1 hour and 13 minutes after being added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list with a $1 million reward.

  • FBI Director Kash Patel announced Thursday that Samuel Ramirez Jr. was apprehended in Sinaloa, Mexico, and landed in Seattle, where he was taken into custody by the Federal Way police.
  • At the center of the case is the May 21, 2023, shooting at Stars Bar and Grill, Federal Way, where Ramirez Jr. allegedly killed Katie Duhnke and Jessyca Hohn and was charged May 24, 2023, with first- and second-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.
  • Named to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on March 10, Ramirez Jr. was the 538th addition and captured in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, just 1 hour and 13 minutes later with a $1,000,000 reward attached.
  • He remains held on $5 million bail and is expected to appear in King County Superior Court for arraignment sometime this month.
  • Officials credited international coordination among the FBI Legal Attaché in Mexico City, SSPC, INM, SEDENA, and the National Guard, while public tips and the unlawful-flight charge focused resources after nearly three years on the run.
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Samuel Ramírez Jr., who was included in the list of the 10 most wanted fugitives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was arrested in Sinaloa, a state in the north of Mexico, on Thursday, March 12.The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, explained that Samuel Ramírez Jr. had been at large for almost three years for his alleged involvement in the murder of two women on May 21, 2023.After the alleged feminicides, Ramírez was believed to have …

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Federal Way double murder suspect captured in Mexico

One hour and 13 minutes after the suspect was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, he was captured in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.

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Federal authorities arrested Samuel "N" in Culiacán, Sinaloa, identified as one of the 10 most wanted fugitives by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Washington and for whom the U.S. government offered a reward of up to $1 million for information allowing his capture. The man was wanted for his alleged involvement in a double homicide in May 2023 in Federal Way, Washington. The Bureau itself had warned that, after fleeing the United St…

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New gesture by Claudia Sheinbaum's government to the United States. Mexican authorities have captured Samuel Ramírez Jr., one of the 10 most wanted fugitives by the FBI, in Culiacán, Sinaloa, as confirmed by U.S. Secretary of Security Omar García Harfuch, in a brief media release. Ramírez Jr. has been at large for almost three years, persecuted for his alleged involvement in the murder of two women in late May 2023. U.S. authorities offered a mi…

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King5 News broke the news in Seattle, United States on Thursday, March 12, 2026.
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