A second sister has been arrested in the death of Jade Aliyah Ramirez, the 19-year-old Caldwell woman struck by a vehicle in a Nampa parking lot this summer. Nampa police say Hannah Lee Huerta, 20, helped arrange the encounter and urged her sister to hit Ramirez. Hannah now faces a charge of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. The allegation comes nearly two months after police arrested her sister, Alissa Mae Huerta, on a separate first-degree murder charge. Neither charge is a finding of guilt.
The July collision on Caldwell Boulevard
Officers were called to a parking lot in the 1500 block of Caldwell Boulevard at about 4:20 a.m. on July 26, following a report that a pedestrian had been hit. Ramirez was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died. What first appeared in the call to be a collision became a homicide investigation after Nampa detectives developed information that the impact was not accidental, according to the police account reported by local stations.
Police arrested Alissa, then 18 and living in Caldwell, on July 28. She faces a first-degree murder charge in Ramirez's death. The new arrest does not replace that case. It brings an additional person into the investigation, with a different alleged role and a different charge. Investigators have not publicly supplied a motive in the accounts of Friday's arrest reviewed for this report.
Investigators trace the encounter to messages
As detectives continued working the case, they reviewed witness statements, video evidence and digital forensic material, police said. Their account alleges that Hannah, a Meridian resident, had sent Ramirez extensive threatening communications on social media before the fatal encounter. Police say she helped arrange where the two sides would meet and directed Alissa to strike Ramirez with her vehicle. Those are police allegations, not conclusions reached at a trial.
The distinction matters for understanding the two cases. Alissa is accused in connection with the vehicle killing itself. Hannah is accused of soliciting and facilitating the confrontation that preceded it. Police have not released the underlying messages in the local accounts reviewed here, so the public description of what they show comes from investigators. The investigation remains active.
A Friday arrest and an open case
Nampa's Persons Crime Unit and Special Enforcement Team arrested Hannah in Meridian on Friday, September 25, without incident, according to the police account. She was booked into the Ada County Jail. Police say the new charge is solicitation to commit murder in the first degree. The legal process will test the evidence behind that accusation while Alissa's separate murder case proceeds.
For residents trying to make sense of Ramirez's death, the new arrest changes the scope of the case: investigators now say the fatal meeting was not simply a decision made by the person behind the wheel. That is a serious allegation with direct stakes for public safety and accountability, but it still has to be proved in court. Anyone with information about the investigation can contact Crime Stoppers at 208-343-COPS; police say tips may be anonymous.