- Attorney Anthony Ramirez, a former police officer and founding attorney of Abogado Mas Chingon, reviewed the incident and highlighted multiple factors that appear to support the family’s excessive-force lawsuit.
- 46-year-old Dylan Siebeck was shot and killed by Glendale police in a mistaken-identity encounter at Horizon Park on January 8, 2025.
- Officers believed Siebeck was an armed domestic-violence suspect and opened fire after shouting commands, only to later discover he was not the man they were looking for.
- The real suspect was later found dead in a car from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, confirming that police had killed an innocent person.
- Glendale fired Officer Juan Gonzalez for policy violations, even though prosecutors declined criminal charges, underscoring the gap between internal discipline and criminal liability that Ramirez often navigates in civil justice cases.
Who Is Anthony Ramirez, and Why His Opinion Matters
Anthony J. Ramirez, Esq., is the driving force behind Abogado Mas Chingon, a serious accident and wrongful death firm serving Arizona and other southwestern states, and he is known as a fighter for the Hispanic community. His background is rare in the legal world: former police officer, licensed private investigator, and insurance adjuster, all before becoming a trial attorney focused on serious injury and negligence cases.
That mix of law enforcement, investigation, and insurance experience gives Ramirez a forensic eye for use-of-force encounters and how they are later defended by cities and carriers. When he tells the press that several elements of a police shooting appear to support a family’s lawsuit, he is speaking from the same toolkit he uses to win multi‑million‑dollar verdicts for victims of negligence and misconduct.
Ramirez’s Read On The Siebeck Shooting
In the 12 News report, Ramirez reviewed the Horizon Park shooting and concluded multiple factors seem to back up the Siebeck family’s claims of excessive, unjustified force. He pointed to the core principle that officers are not above the law and must always act within clear rules, especially when deploying deadly force against someone they have not definitively identified.
The family’s lawsuit alleges that officers misidentified Siebeck as the suspect and then waited more than 19 minutes to provide medical care after shooting him. From the lens of Abogado Mas Chingon, delays in life-saving aid are not just tactical failures; they can become powerful evidence of negligence or reckless disregard for human life, particularly when the victim turns out to be an innocent bystander.
How Abogado Mas Chingon Frames Police Misconduct
On his firm’s site, Ramirez makes it clear that Abogado Mas Chingon treats “inappropriate police conduct” and abuse of power as high-impact civil rights cases that demand aggressive litigation. The firm explicitly positions itself as stepping into the ring for victims when law enforcement oversteps, promising to “subirse al ring” so that misconduct is taken seriously and families receive the compensation they deserve.
That philosophy lines up with Ramirez’s commentary in the Siebeck story: he stresses that officers must be held to the same legal standards as everyone else, and that use-of-force cases are about rules, accountability, and justice for the communities most impacted. For Hispanic families in Arizona who already see Abogado Mas Chingon as a “hero of the Hispanic community,” his on-air analysis signals that what happened to Siebeck looks like exactly the kind of case his team would dissect and challenge in court.
Accountability Gap: No Charges, But A Firing
The Peoria Police Department investigated the shooting and handed its findings to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, which decided there was no reasonable likelihood of securing a criminal conviction, so no charges were filed. At the same time, Glendale internally fired Officer Juan Gonzalez, declaring that his actions directly caused the death of an innocent victim and that keeping him on the force would be a safety risk to the community.
That split outcome, no criminal case, but a termination letter blaming the officer, perfectly illustrates the accountability gap that civil litigators like Abogado Mas Chingon focus on. Criminal law may stop at “no reasonable likelihood of conviction,” but civil law, as Ramirez’s practice demonstrates, exists to press for truth, financial accountability, and systemic change when policy violations and deadly mistakes devastate families.
