Donoban Fonseca has been charged with hate crimes for stabbing two trans-Latina women one of them on two separate occasions. The attacks which all took place in McArthur Park began in August, ended with the attempted murder of advocate Daniela Hernandez Gonzalez on October 4.
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The LA Times reports that Fonseca was also charged with participating in the stabbing of a transgender woman in the park on Aug. 21, prosecutors said. Authorities say he also took part in an attack on the same victim on Sept. 1.
Daniela Hernandez Gonzalez, who is expected to survive, immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador three years ago, according to Bamby Salcedo, president, and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition advocacy group. Hernandez had been working as a housekeeper and volunteered with the advocacy group to serve hot meals out of their Wilshire Boulevard offices in recent months, friends said.
According to police Daniela Gonzalez was surrounded by 5 people who began stabbing her and shouting homophobic slurs.
“She came to this country running away from the violence she was experiencing in El Salvador, only to come to the United States to almost get killed,” Salcedo said.
Police declined to give any further information on the other victim.
Donoban Fonseca is being held on a one million dollar bond.
A GoFundMe has been started to help Daniela Hernandez Gonzalez through her recovery.
