Suspect in Dodger Stadium Assault Taken Into Custody in East Hollywood

[Updated at 7:50 p.m.]

Los Angeles Police released the identity of the man taken into custody this morning. Giovanni Ramirez, 31, of Los Angeles was taken into custody around 7:10 a.m. in the 800 block of North Mariposa Avenue, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed. He was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and held in lieu of $1 million bail. Two other suspects —a man and a female believed to have been the getaway driver — remain on the loose, police said. The man taken into custody is believed to have been the primary aggressor in the assault on 42-year-old Santa Clara paramedic Bryan Stow in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium, said Police Chief Charlie Beck at a news conference at Dodger Stadium late this afternoon before officials released Ramirez's identity.

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A man suspected of brutally attacking San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium in March was taken into custody early Sunday morning in east Hollywood.

With guns drawn, a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team descended on a three-story apartment building in Hollywood, ordering the occupants of one unit out. A man and a woman were taken into custody.

Los Angeles police confirmed only that two people were taken into custody based on a search warrant issued for an undisclosed location. Police said they would announce more details at a 4 p.m. news conference at Dodger Stadium.

Witnesses told a Los Angeles Times reporter that the man taken into custody was bald and had tattoos on his neck.

Stow's sister, Bonnie Stow, told ABC7 that Los Angeles police told her of the arrest shortly after it happened.

"I can't even tell you the emotions that we are going through right now,'' Bonnie Stow told ABC7.

Last week, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck revealed that a woman driving the getaway car was wearing a Dodgers jersey bearing Andre Ethier's No. 16.

"This is new information,'' Beck said. "This has not been made public before. "We're hoping that this jogs somebody's memory."

More than 300 billboards with drawings of the suspects were spread across the Southland as police sought clues.

Beck said 17 LAPD detectives were working on the case full time. Stow, 42, is showing signs of recovery at San Francisco General Hospital. He was flown there last week, and his sister said Sunday that he has stopped having seizures, but has not regained consciousness.

Last week, Beck said the Dodgers have donated an additional $100,000 to increase the reward in the case to $200,000. The Dodgers announced last month that they had donated $25,000 to the reward fund.

"Because of these billboards, because of the cooperation from the Dodgers and because of the public, we are working on over 500 various clues that have been developed,'' Beck said. 

The suspects were described as being between 18 and 25 years of age with shaved heads, thin mustaches, and one also had a small goatee. The second suspect had numerous tattoos on his neck.

Stow had been in a medically induced coma at County-USC Medical Center until being transferred to the San Francisco hospital Monday. He is still listed in critical condition.

City News Service was used to compile this report.