October 3, 2017
| 10:04am
| Updated
Nathaniel Ramos Jr., Troy White, and Keli Dunnican
Cleveland City Jail
Three suspected gang members pummeled two men — sexually
assaulting one with a pipe threader — before dousing them with gasoline
in a Cleveland home, police said.
The trio — believed to be members of the brutal Heartless Felons
street gang — are accused of assaulting a 31-year-old man after storming
into his apartment in the city’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood last
Thursday. Two of the suspects, Nathaniel Ramos Jr., 18, and Kelli
Dunnican, 22, were wearing masks at the time,
according to police reports cited by Cleveland.com.
Once inside, Ramos, Dunnican and another suspected gang member, Troy
White, 47, pummeled the man, punching and kicking him along with another
51-year-old man inside the home. The goons then tied the 31-year-old
man’s hands behind his back with blue tape, police said.
The younger victim called White a homophobic slur and accused him of
sexually assaulting other inmates while in prison — prompting White to
sodomize the man with a metal pipe threader as Ramos and Dunnican held
the man down, authorities said.
Ramos doused both victims with gasoline, but the suspects ultimately
decided against setting them on fire after Dunnican talked them out of
it, police reports show.
Another man suddenly showed up at the house and fought with the three
suspects before White shot him twice in his right leg. The wounded
41-year-old victim ran into a room and held the door shut behind him as
he screamed for help, prompting the trio to flee the home, but not
before Dunnican stole a cellphone and a pair of shoes, according to
police reports.
The three suspects were later arrested after running through back
yards in the 3200 block of Fulton Road, where Dunnican and Ramos were
apprehended outside and White was busted inside a detached garage.
Police found a handgun in White’s pocket at the time of his arrest,
and Ramos was found in possession of 14 baggies of marijuana and reeked
of gasoline, cops said. Dunnican was found carrying rolls of duct tape, a
knife and three cellphones, including the one stolen from the victim’s
apartment, police said.
Both Dunnican and Ramos declined to talk to investigators, but White
told police he was involved in a theft ring with both victims and that
they had smoked crack together earlier that day, police reports show.
White, according to prison records, has served two stints in prison
for armed robbery. He’s also scheduled to be sentenced later this month
for an apartment burglary in May,
Cleveland.com reported.
Dunnican and Ramos do not have adult criminal records.
