I'm Sergeant Cindy with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office yesterday detectives arrested 50-year-old Ramon Hernandez for murder in the first degree just before 2 30 PM deputies responded to 610 Timber Bay Circle West in Oldsmar for a man getting beaten with a baseball bat when deputies arrived on scene they found the victim Brian Miriam laying face down on the ground suffering from head trauma detectives Lauren Hernandez arrived at Miriam's residence looking for his girlfriend and exited his vehicle with the bat Hernandez approached Miriam from behind and struck him in the back of the head after Miriam fell to the ground Hernandez proceeded to strike him several more times with the bat before fleeing Miriam was pronounced deceased at the scene about an hour later Hernandez turned himself into deputies at the Pinellas County Justice Center detectives say Hernandez admitted to striking Miriam the first time out of self-defense and multiple times after that out of anger he was charged with murder in the first degree and transported to the Pinellas County Jail