A 50-year-old woman was raped inside the Queens discount store where she works, but a phone call she made to a friend just before the attack helped police nab the teen suspect, police sources said.
(Rockard/Getty Images)A 50-year-old woman was raped inside the Queens discount store where she works, but a phone call she made to a friend just before the attack helped police nab the teen suspect, police sources said.
The victim got a bad feeling when Donovan Fenton, 17, stepped into the Richmond Hill shop about 11:40 a.m. Saturday, sources said.
She asked him to leave and he did, only to return a short time later, armed with a knife and telling her, "Do what I say or I will kill you," sources said.
By then, the woman had already dialed her friend and told her to stay on the phone.
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Fenton then confronted the woman — who yelled out, "Oh my God, I'm gonna die!" — and took her to the basement, where he forced her to perform oral sex on him, then raped her, sources said.
On his way out the door, he stole about $60, but by then the friend had already dialed 911, sources said.
Police showed up, got a description from the victim, then found the attacker less than three blocks away.
Fenton, who is from Bedford-Stuyvesant and is also known as Donovan Hardmen, was charged with rape, sex assault, robbery and weapons possession. He was also charged with an assault case in which he punched a 17-year-old girl in the face on a northbound A train on April 30, 2016.