Actor held after knife attack
De’Aundre Bonds, who served time for a fatal stabbing, now faces assault charges.
A Los Angeles actor who served time in prison for fatally stabbing his aunt’s boyfriend was back behind bars Thursday, accused again of wielding a knife and attacking others.
De’Aundre Marquise Bonds, 40, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, carrying a dirk or dagger and felony vandalism with prior convictions, prosecutors said.
Police arrested Bonds at a home in South L.A. after a family member told him to leave and he responded by grabbing two kitchen knives and attacking the relative, authorities said.
He threw one of the knives at the relative, who escaped to a bedroom and locked the door, authorities said. Bonds “then allegedly stabbed the locked bedroom door,” prosecutors said.
Police officers found Bonds with a knife in his waistband and arrested him. If convicted, he faces up to 13 years in prison.
In the previous incident, Bonds was sentenced to 11 years after he stabbed his aunt’s boyfriend to death in front of her home, according to a 2002 Times article.
In an interview Bonds gave from prison a year later, the actor said he was taking a break from filming a movie in New Mexico at the time of the stabbing. Actor Denzel Washington had picked him for a supporting role in the film “Antwone Fisher” and he had gone to his aunt’s home in South L.A. to celebrate, he told The Times.
When he arrived, he accidentally knocked over a trash can and got into an argument with his aunt’s boyfriend, Anthony Lamar Matthews, according to the article. Bonds ran to the kitchen, retrieved a knife and stabbed Matthews in the chest. Bonds claimed it was self-defense.