A 19-year-old Texas woman was hospitalized with a head injury after two teen girls chased her into a convenience store bathroom on International Boulevard and beat her with a toilet tank lid, police say. Two adult men, 19-year-old Gyasi Rapier of Hayward and 19-year-old Damir Whiles of Oakland, now face charges tied to the attack, with investigators saying the teen girls involved were suspected of being trafficked by men connected to the assault.
According to The Mercury News, the confrontation began after a group tried to break into the victim's room at the Value Inn on MacArthur Boulevard, then escalated when she returned to International Boulevard. The two teen girls, identified as Ny Ny and Queen, allegedly chased the woman into the bathroom of a nearby convenience store and used a large pole to break down the door before beating her with the toilet tank lid, the outlet reported. Police say Queen had attempted to recruit the victim for her pimp, identified as Deezy.
Accusations Fly Over an Alleged $2,000 Robbery
During the chaos, two men reportedly dragged away the victim's friend, and the victim managed to call 911 as pepper spray permeated the store. Surveillance footage captured Whiles demanding money from the victim, the report states, though Whiles denied being a pimp and denied involvement in the attack, telling police he was simply buying something in the store when he heard a commotion.
Whiles claimed the victim and Queen had robbed another woman of $2,000 and that the victim refused to share the proceeds — an account the victim disputed. Whiles also said the victim had sprayed him and others with pepper spray, but the victim told police it was she who had been sprayed. Whiles is charged with attempted second-degree robbery, while Rapier faces accessory charges after police identified his Lexus as the getaway car used to flee the scene.
Judge Orders Rapier to Stay Out of Trafficking Areas
Rapier was released from jail while his case remains pending, with a judge ordering him to stay in school and to stay out of areas known for prostitution. Rapier previously played high school varsity baseball as an outfielder for Oakland Technical High School through 2025, according to MaxPreps.
The attack unfolded along the 10- to 15-block stretch of International Boulevard that law enforcement and community organizations have long identified as a major West Coast hub for human trafficking and child sexual exploitation, known locally as “The Track” or “The Blade,” per The Oaklandside. Local organizations like Love Never Fails have conducted frequent outreach along the corridor for years.
City and State Have Ramped Up Enforcement This Year
The case lands amid an intensified crackdown on the corridor. Between January and March, the Oakland Police Department's Vice and Commercial Exploitation Unit arrested more than 70 individuals along International Boulevard in targeted anti-trafficking operations, according to the City of Oakland, which noted nearly two-thirds of arrested sex buyers were not Oakland residents. Those operations followed the January rollout of California Assembly Bill 379, the Survivor Support and Demand Reduction Act, which created stricter penalties and loitering enforcement aimed at buyers and traffickers rather than sex workers themselves.
That buyer-focused approach traces back to a 2022 shift under California Senate Bill 357, which decriminalized loitering with intent to engage in prostitution and legally restricted police from sweeping street-based sex workers, redirecting enforcement toward pimps and buyers instead, per the Oakland Report. In July, the Oakland City Council voted 6-0, with one abstention, to approve a six-month pilot program installing water-filled traffic barricades on side streets near Franklin Elementary School, targeting 9th, 10th and 11th avenues between International Boulevard and East 15th Street. Hoodline covered sex-trade displacement around barriers in San Francisco’s Mission District in its report on how the sex trade shifts around barriers.
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It remains unclear whether the two teen girls will face juvenile assault and robbery charges or be treated primarily as trafficking victims, and how prosecutors will proceed with the pending accessory and robbery charges against Rapier and Whiles. The case adds to a string of violent incidents along International Boulevard that Hoodline has tracked this year, including an abduction and repeated rape case involving brothers charged in March.
