One woman dies from injuries, while male victim survives shooting, Police Department reports
A 29-year-old Manatee County man has been charged with second-degree murder and Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon in the aftermath of a shooting that took place just before 3:15 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 31, near the 1100 block of North Washington Boulevard, the Sarasota Police Department has reported.
Grevil Vicente Bonilla Enamorado, of 803 63rd Ave. W. in Bradenton, is being held without bond in the Sarasota County Jail, Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office Corrections Division records show. His arraignment was scheduled for Oct. 3, the records note. However, on Sept. 3, an assistant 12th Judicial Circuit assistant public defender filed a document with the court, saying that the suspect had pleaded “Not Guilty,” waived arraignment and demanded a jury trial.
The shooting incident occurred at 2000 Princeton St. in Sarasota, Bonilla Enamorado’s Probable Cause Affidavit says.
“Preliminary information indicates that several groups of people were in a fight outside,” the Police Department news release added. Bonilla Enamorado allegedly “pulled out a gun and fired shots,” the release said. “Several witnesses heard what happened and held the suspect until officers arrived.”
“One woman died at the scene,” the release pointed out, while a man was transported to Sarasota Memorial Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
The Probable Cause Affidavit says the woman also was a Bradenton resident: Jessica Lillo, 36.
At the time the release was distributed, it noted that police personnel had found “no known relationship between the suspect and the victims.”
“The case remains under investigation,” the release added. “Anyone with information is asked to call the Sarasota Police Department Criminal Investigation Division at 941-263-6070 or Sarasota Crime Stoppers at 941-366-TIPS (8477).”
Details of the affidavit
The narrative of Bonilla Enamorado’s Probable Cause Affidavit says that when officers arrived at 3:21 a.m. at the scene of the shooting, the female victim was on the ground “with a gunshot wound to her right flank.” She was pronounced deceased at 3:44 a.m., it adds.
The second victim suffered “a gunshot wound to his back near the right shoulder.”
One female witness at the scene handed an officer a 9mm firearm that she said she had secured while another person restrained Bonilla Enamorado until police personnel could arrive.
Detectives who canvassed the scene found seven 9mm bullet casings and one live 9mm bullet on the ground, the affidavit notes.
During interviews of 10 witnesses and the suspect, the affidavit continues, detectives learned that two groups were involved in an altercation on Princeton Street. Group 1 “consisted of the victim’s friends and family members,” it says, while Group 2 “consisted of the suspect and his friends.”
An argument erupted between the groups as they walked southbound on North Washington Boulevard, the affidavit notes. “The argument escalated to a physical altercation with members from both groups exchanging punches, pushing, and shoving,” the affidavit adds.
“The suspect and his girlfriend … were standing near a [red Chevrolet truck] when the fighting began pouring onto Princeton Street,” the affidavit continues.
One witness told the detectives “that he saw the suspect standing in front of the red truck. The suspect fired 4 to 7 shots in to the grass,” the affidavit notes. Then, the witness said, “he heard two clicks coming from the gun, which is when he tackled [Bonilla Enamorado] to the ground, and a woman retrieved the gun, the affidavit adds.
The boyfriend of the female victim reported to the detectives that “he stepped into the altercation to separate everyone,” and then he was struck by a male from Group 2, who was with the suspect, the affidavit continues.
As the boyfriend defended himself, the affidavit says, “he heard three shots coming from behind him at close range.” He told the detectives that “he did not see the suspect with the gun,” but he did see his girlfriend fall to the ground, the affidavit adds. When he went over to her to try to help her, the affidavit says, he saw blood on her chest.
“Witnesses from both groups confirmed a mutual physical altercation that was started by the other party,” but only two of the witnesses saw the firearm, the affidavit points out.
When detectives interviewed the male victim who survived the shooting, the affidavit continues, that man confirmed the physical altercation, but he said did not see who shot him.
During the detectives’ interview with Bonilla Enamorado, the affidavit notes, he reported that he had been at the Bombon Club with his girlfriend and several friends. [The Bombon Mexican Restaurant and Lounge stands at 1118 N. Washington Blvd., its website says.] “At the end of the night,” the affidavit notes, he and the registered owner of the red truck were waiting by the truck when he saw his girlfriend “and two other members of his group arguing with another group.”
He told the detectives that he retrieved his 9mm handgun from the truck and fired four shots “into the grass in hopes that people would run away, but the fight continued.”
Then, he added, “he ran into the fight with his gun to try to separate everyone and to help his girlfriend and friends,” the affidavit says. At that point, it notes, Bonilla Enamorado reported that a male from the other group “punched him and took him to the ground. … The man rammed his head into the ground, and he dropped the gun,” the affidavit points out of Bonilla Enamorado’s statement.
He told the detectives that he did not remember firing the gun in the street. Bonilla Enamorado “indicated he had an injury to the back of his head” from his having been “rammed into the ground,” the affidavit continues. However, when the detectives checked the back of his head, it says, they “did not see any injuries.”
When detectives interviewed Bonilla Enamorado’s girlfriend at the Police Department, the affidavit says, she confirmed having been at the Bombon Club with Bonilla Enamorado and several friends. While they were walking to their car “at the end of the night,” it adds, she reported that a group of people she did not know “began picking a fight with her and her friends. [She] said everything happened fast, and suddenly, there was a physical altercation between [the] groups.”
Further, she told the detectives, Bonilla Enamorado “ran to help their friends,” but she added that she did not know whether he was carrying a firearm, the affidavit says.
Yet, when the detectives told her that he had admitted to having the firearm, she acknowledged that a firearm was involved in the incident, the affidavit notes. “She did say that she ran over to [Bonilla Enamorado when he] was on the ground with an unknown male holding him,” the affidavit continues. “She said she tried to talk to [him],” but he would not respond.
Then the affidavit points out, “It should be noted that members of the suspect’s group all left the scene, and all members form the victim’s group remained.”
A Sarasota News Leader review of records maintained by the staff of Karen Rushing, clerk of the 12th Judicial Circuit Court and county comptroller, found no other cases involving Bonilla Enamorado.
The only case it found in the Manatee County Clerk of Court’s office records that involved him was a speeding infraction in September 2024.