Death penalty imposed for 2019 killing of Sacramento officer

By Sharon Bernstein
The Sacramento Bee

SACREMNTO, Calif. — A Sacramento judge on Friday formally imposed the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who pleaded guilty to the ambush killing of rookie police officer Tara O’Sullivan in a bloody, methamphetamine-fueled North Sacramento assault that shocked the capital region.

Ramos, who pleaded guilty last summer, showed no emotion as O’Sullivan’s family, friends, and former colleagues delivered tearful victim impact statements describing the grief and trauma they have endured since her 2019 death.

“I am broken,” Kelley O’Sullivan, the slain officer’s mother, told the court. “There is no fixing this.”

Ramos shot the 26-year-old to death as she tried to help his then-girlfriend collect her things…