Illegal Immigrant Testifies He Did Not See Arizona Rancher Gun Down Victim on His Property

George Alan Kelly stands accused of second-degree murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of an illegal Mexican immigrant.

Daniel Ramirez testifies at Santa Cruz County Superior Court in Nogales, Ariz., on the shooting death of an illegal Mexican immigrant on March 27, 2024. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

NOGALES, Ariz.—Prosecutors in the second-degree murder trial of Arizona ranch owner George Alan Kelly called as their first witness an illegal immigrant who has been deported from the United States nearly a dozen times, once for illegally smuggling drugs into the country.

Honduran national Daniel Alberto Ramirez, 43, testified in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on March 27 that he saw the victim, Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, shot and killed by what he believes was an AK-47 rifle on Mr. Kelly’s property.