HIALEAH, Fla. — Two people who were found dead earlier this week inside an apartment unit in Hialeah have been identified as two barbers who were friends.
Police identified the victims as Kevin Ramirez, 18, and Cristian Rolando Contreras, 20.
According to police, the victims’ lifeless bodies were discovered around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Atlantico at Aquabella apartments, located at 11181 W. 35th Way.
The victims’ friend and fellow barber, Bryan Leon, told Local 10’s Christina Vazquez that they both worked with him at Billionaire Barbershop in Hialeah.
He said he and Contreras worked together for two years and Ramirez joined them just a month ago.
According to Leon, the three became fast friends, recently traveling together to Cancun and they were supposed to head to Medellin, Colombia on vacation on Thursday.
“The one thing I want everyone to know about my friends is that they were good people, good-hearted, they cared about their family, their moms, the community, especially here,” Leon said, pointing to Contreras’ empty barber station. “The haircuts they give -- it is not just haircuts. They give experience, they make everybody laugh, everybody loved them. We had a ceremony here, we had a lot of people and they were just hard-working kids. They did not deserve this.
“Imagine your son or daughter being a young age, just working, trying to get to their dreams, and this happens. It sucks, it makes no sense.”
Police have released little information about the deaths, and Leon said he has no idea what happened, making the grieving process even more difficult for their friends and family.
“I don’t know nothing. I just know they were found dead,” Leon said. “I don’t know how, the why, don’t know who -- just waiting on the cops, because they haven’t released anything. They are just releasing their names, that is about it. I don’t know any of the details.”
According to Leon, the apartment where the victims’ bodies were found in belonged to Ramirez.
“I used to go there, just chill with them as well,” Leon said. “He had his set up. It was a fire, fire apartment, especially at his age. He is only 18, he owned it, so it was pretty impressive. Cristian lived with his parents, he was 20 years old, but he was planning, literally, to buy an apartment with Kevin in August or September.”
A cause of death has not yet been released.
A GoFundMe page has been created to help with Contreras’ funeral expenses.
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