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Police ID gay nightclub ‘drug killers’

Patrick Reilly

The NYPD has identified and released photos of three suspects wanted for the murders of two men who were fatally drugged after going out to gay nightclubs in Hell’s Kitchen last year.

Jayqwan Hamilton (near inset), 35, of Brooklyn; Robert Demaio (center inset), 34, of Brooklyn; and Jacob Barroso (right inset), 30, of Manhattan, were indicted last week with murder over the deaths of John Umberger and Julio Ramirez.

The trio, along with three other suspects, also face charges of grand larceny, robbery and conspiracy to drug and rob in connection to at least 17 incidents in the city between September 2021 and August 2022, police said.

Umberger, 33, and Ramirez, 25, died after they ingested a deadly cocktail of drugs while out partying in Hell’s Kitchen’s vibrant LGBTQ neighborhood last spring.

Both died as a result of “acute intoxication” from a mix of fentanyl, cocaine, ethanol and other drugs, the city Medical Examiner found on March 3.

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