Maria Ramos, mother of eight from California, shot dead on street in Oakland by teenager suspected of selling drugs

A California mother of eight who previously suffered from substance abuse was gunned down in the middle of the street by a group of teenagers who she believed were selling marijuana vaporizers to one of her children.

Maria Ramos, 33, was visiting her mother in Oakland when the two spotted a Toyota near her home that was suspected of selling the drug-laced e-cigarettes.

“Our plan was to tell them not to come to us anymore,” said Bianca Velasco, Ramos' mother, before things took a tragic turn.

Ramos and Velasco drove up to the Toyota sedan full of teenagers near the intersection of Hilton Street and Bancroft Avenue in Oakland on August 7.

A street camera captured the moment Ramos jumped out of the passenger seat of her mother's Toyota RAV4 and began spraying the teenager's sedan with pepper spray, according to video obtained by KTVU.

Two teenagers then jumped out of the car, one pulled out a gun and shot Ramos.

The mother, who was visiting the Bay Area from Los Angeles, is seen running across the street as the gunman turns to shoot Ramos' mother, who fled the shooting.

The shooter got back into the blue sedan before it drove off.

When Velasco returned to the scene of the accident, she found her daughter lying motionless on the side of the road.

“I started rubbing her chest and telling her, 'Breathe, Lupita, breathe! We still need you. You have 8 kids.' And she tried,” Velasco told the outlet.

“She was a happy person, a very loving person to herself and her children. You know she was very loving. She loved going out with her children. Her children were her everything,” Velasco said.

“She left her eight children and it's really hard,” Ramos' aunt, Carmen Beltran, told Fox 2.

Ramos, who gave up her own drug addiction years ago, leaves behind seven daughters aged between 1 and 15 and a seven-year-old son.

Beltran criticized the teenagers' choice of violence that led to the death of her niece and called for a change in their lifestyle.

“They should change their way of life here. We don't have to kill people for no reason, you know?” Beltran said. “There is another way to solve the problem. If you have a problem with someone, you don't have to shoot them.”

The suspected shooter, a 16-year-old boy, was later arrested and charged with murder.

He is being held at the Alameda County Juvenile Detention Center, but his name has not been released due to his age.

Isaiah Gomes, the alleged getaway driver, was charged by the Almadea County District Attorney's Office with aiding and abetting the shooting.