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 ✉ A San Diego Police officer collects evidence at the scene of Saturday's assault at Mount Hope Cemetery. 
 
  A young woman whose "motherly instincts kicked in" stopped a man who was slashing his son with a sharp object Saturday during a wild assault at Mount Hope Cemetery in San Diego. 
 
 Police said that Joseph Ramirez, 30, of San Diego took three of his children to the cemetery on Market Street just before 4:30 p.m. and starting slicing the forearms of his 8-year-old son. Ramirez reportedly had been hearing the voice of his dead grandmother in his head. 
 
 The incident began while Jaymisha Pires and Corey Granberry, both 21, were visiting the cemetery to visit the grave of Granberry's godson. Pires confronted Ramirez, begging him to release the boy. 
 
 "My motherly instincts kicked in when I saw him hurting that little boy," said Pires, who has children aged 6 and 2. "It was a blur. I just wanted him to stop." 
 
 Pires said Ramirez kept saying, "We're going to Jesus, we're going to Jesus." But Ramirez finally shoved the boy aside and ran. Granberry grabbed the boy and the two other Ramirez children. One was a toddler. The other appeared to be about 3. Granberry wrapped a T-shirt around one of the arms of the boy, who was bleeding badly. 
 
 Ramirez was tackled by Dana Fontenot, a 60-year-old security guard from Able Patrol and Guard who was on his third day of working at Mount Hope. 
 
 Fontenot shrugged and said, "It's all in a day's work." 
 
 Ramirez was taken to a hospital and he will be booked in jail for child abuse and assault with a deadly weapon, authorities said. His son was taken to Rady’s Children’s Hospital for treatment. 
 
 Officer David Stafford said he was unsure about the condition of the boy or his father. 

 An officer investigates the scene of the stabbing inside Mount Hope Cemetery. 
 
 A father is in custody, accused of attempting to sacrifice his own son in a San Diego area cemetery. 
 
 Joseph Ramirez, 30, took his family to Mount Hope Cemetery Saturday around 4:30 p.m. and told them his dead grandmother told him to sacrifice the 8-year-old boy, according to San Diego police. 
 
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 A father is accused of trying to sacrifice his 8 year-old son at Mount Hope Cemetery Saturday. Medical assistant Corey Granberry spoke with NBC 7's Chris Chan about how she and her best friend Jaymisha Pires jumped in to help. (Published Monday, April 30, 2012) 
 
 Officers released a report stating Ramirez had brought candles to the cemetery. One of the candles broke, and he used a piece of the broken glass to slash open his son's forearms. 
 
 Ramirez then slashed his own forearms. 
 
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 Medical assistant Corey Granberry witnessed the incident and jumped in to help along with her best friend Jaymisha Pires. 
 
 Granberry was visiting her godson's grave when she saw a woman, clothes covered in blood, calling for help. 
 
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 “Out of all these people were passing her by, she almost got hit by a car, all these people that were just passing her by," Granberry said. 
 
 She said somehow Pires was able to convince Ramirez to let the child go. 
 
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 Granberry's medical training kicked in. 
 
 “I grabbed the little boy sat him down on the curb grabbed a shirt and wrapped it up on his arm,” she said. 
 
 When officers arrived, they transported Ramirez to a nearby hospital for treatment. Once he's released, officers say Ramirez will be booked into county jail on charges of child abuse and assault with a deadly weapon. 
 
 The boy was taken to Rady Children's Hospital for treatment. 
 
 Granberry said she was inspired earlier in the week by a group of construction workers who jumped in to help a family injured in a rollover crash. 
 
 “I think sometimes people are put in places. And honestly, we were at the right place at the right time,” she said. 
 
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– Jaymisha Pires and Corey Granberry, both 21, were visiting the San Diego grave of Granberry's godson on Saturday when they saw a woman with her clothes covered in blood asking for help. She led them to her husband, 30-year-old Joseph Ramirez, who was allegedly holding their three children hostage at his uncle's grave. Pires saw Ramirez slashing at his 8-year-old son's arms with glass, apparently broken off from candles he had brought to the cemetery. Ramirez said he had been hearing his dead grandmother's voice in his head, telling him to sacrifice his son, and he was repeating, "We're going to Jesus" when Pires and Granberry found him. "My motherly instincts kicked in when I saw him hurting that little boy," Pires tells the San Diego Union-Tribune. Granberry managed to get the other two children, both girls, a safe distance away, and Pires eventually convinced Ramirez to let the boy go, NBC San Diego reports. Granberry—a medical assistant—wrapped a shirt around his arm. Ramirez was tackled by a security guard after running away and was later taken to a hospital; he will be charged with child abuse and assault with a deadly weapon. His son was being treated at a nearby hospital, KGTV reports.