Two undocumented immigrants committed sexual assault with a knife on women in Coney Island on Sunday night, and the woman’s boyfriend who tried to intervene was also attacked. The suspects have been arrested.
The incident occurred around 9 p.m. on August 11. The suspects were identified as 24-year-old Nicaraguan immigrant David Davon-Bonilla and 37-year-old Mexican immigrant Leovando Moreno. They approached a 46-year-old woman near the boardwalk at Surf Ave and West 16th Street. Davon-Bonilla proposed exchanging sex for coffee and food, and when rejected, he held a knife to her neck and sexually assaulted her. The woman’s 34-year-old boyfriend, upon returning with food and witnessing the assault, was attacked by Moreno with a metal pipe.
Police arrived after receiving reports and took the woman to the hospital for treatment, and she is currently in stable condition. The boyfriend refused medical treatment. The two suspects were later arrested by the police near the boardwalk. Davon-Bonilla is charged with rape, assault, sexual abuse, illegal possession of a weapon, and intimidation. Moreno is charged with assault and illegal possession of a weapon.
According to the New York Post, Davon-Bonilla illegally crossed into the U.S. from Texas in December 2022 and was arrested four months later for sexually assaulting another woman in an undocumented immigrant shelter at La Quinta Inn in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He had been incarcerated for over a year and was released after admitting to the felony assault in June, serving time for the period he had already been detained. However, he committed another crime just two months after his release. Pix11 News reported that the victim couple were homeless and had been living under the boardwalk for about two weeks, while the two suspects were also homeless.