A truck driver who fired a bullet through the window of a car carrying a 2-year-old child on Interstate 83 near Cockeysville will spend up to 40 years in prison. Christian Ramos, convicted at trial in April of attempted first-degree murder and related crimes, was sentenced Thursday, more than a year after the shooting left three people in the targeted car physically unharmed.
A Bullet Through the Window on I-83
Not long before midnight on June 18, 2025, Ramos fired a bullet through the front passenger-side window of a car carrying three people near Shawan Road in Cockeysville, according to The Baltimore Banner. No one in the car, which included a 2-year-old, was physically hurt in the attack. Police reviewed dash camera video and conducted interviews before identifying Ramos as the shooter, the Banner reported.
Investigators located Ramos at a TA Travel Center in Elkton. A search of his tractor-trailer turned up a loaded .45-caliber handgun, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and multiple cartridge casings, according to the same account. At the time, Maryland State Police said in a release that three additional shootings had occurred earlier on I-83 in Pennsylvania.
Judge Calls the Attack Unprovoked
Baltimore County Circuit Judge James Rhodes, who handed down the sentence, described the crime as “absolutely crazy” and called it an unprovoked shooting. Ramos represented himself at sentencing and declined to speak, the station's report notes. Assistant State's Attorney Joe Dominick had pushed for a 50-year sentence, well above the sentencing guidelines, which called for a punishment between 12 and 37 years in prison.
Court records and reporting have given conflicting details about Ramos's background. The Banner described him at sentencing as 30 years old and a resident of Melrose Park, Illinois, while a Maryland State Police release from June 2025 identified him as 28 and from Aurora, Illinois. The discrepancy between the two accounts has not been resolved in available records.
Pennsylvania Charges Still Pending
Beyond the Baltimore County case, Ramos remains charged in York County, Pennsylvania, with four counts of attempted criminal homicide and related offenses tied to three additional shootings there. The Maryland State Police release at the time of his arrest said Ramos had been charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses in connection with the Cockeysville incident, a count that was ultimately resolved through his April trial conviction. The outcome of the Pennsylvania charges has not yet been reported.
