Man found guilty of murder in 2023 shooting in downtown Silver Spring 

Victim’s family say Kymani Bailey, 21, was ‘a beautiful boy’

January 17, 2025 9:57 a.m.

Eighteen months after 21-year-old Kymani Bailey was shot and killed in a Silver Spring parking garage, a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury convicted a 32-year-old man Tuesday for his murder.  

“He was a beautiful boy,” Natasha Jordan Bailey, Kymani Bailey’s mother, said during a Thursday afternoon press briefing at the Rockville court. “He takes care of the people around him.”  

Following a six-day trial, the jury found Ramone Ramsay, 32, guilty of two counts of attempted first-degree murder and four counts related to the illegal use of a firearm in connection with the shooting that killed Bailey in July 2023.  

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According to Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy, Ramsay, who did not have an address listed in court records, faces the potential of life in prison without parole. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 28. Ramsay is being represented by the Montgomery County Public Defender’s Office, which didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Friday morning.  

Ramsay’s conviction stems from an incident that occurred at about 2:40 a.m. July 8, 2023, in a public parking garage near Thayer and Silver Spring avenues in Silver Spring.  

According to the press briefing with McCarthy and Bailey’s family, Ramsay was removed that night from a night club by security staff due to his behavior.   

Bailey, who was at the same nightclub that night but didn’t know or interact with Ramsay, was walking two of his female friends, who also didn’t know or interact with Ramsay, to their cars in the parking garage from the night club, according to Natasha Jordan Bailey.  One of Bailey’s friends said that as the group approached the garage entrance, they saw a black Mercedes pull over, according to charging documents.  

According to a video of the shooting, Ramsay got out of the car and opened fire on the group, who began to run away. Bailey was shot and later pronounced dead at the scene by Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service crews, according to the charging documents. 

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A person who wasn’t part of the group saw Ramsay shoot into the parking garage, and immediately went to find help, ultimately finding a police officer heading toward the shooting, the charging documents said.  

McCarthy said Ramsay was serving a sentence related to drugs before he was granted compassionate release in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. There was also an order to deport Ramsay to Jamaica that wasn’t served, McCarthy said.  

McCarthy said Bailey’s death was a tragedy, and advocated for changing how late at night alcohol can be served at county establishments, noting that people from other jurisdictions with earlier cut-off times for serving alcohol often come to the county to continue drinking.  

“To me, one of the biggest safety plans we could have is closing early so that these things don’t happen,” he said.  

Natasha Jordan Bailey thanked McCarthy’s office and police for their work on the case. She encouraged others to take care of each other. 

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“We are all in one community… . We all have to depend on each other,” she said, referring to the attorneys, police and the witness who sought help following the shooting. “The small things we do could impact someone else.”  

Bailey said she believed her son’s legacy would be one of helping others, like he did when he was walking his friends to their cars.  

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