Posted on: March 26, 2026 01:00 PM

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Second man indicted for 2021 acid throwing attack in Elmont

Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly announced that a second Brooklyn man was indicted on first-degree assault charges for participating in the 2021 alleged attack on a 21-year-old woman outside of her home in Elmont causing her significant burn injuries.

Shaquille Coke, 31, was arraigned today before Judge Joy Watson on grand jury indictment charges of two counts of Assault in the First Degree (a B violent felony); Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree (an A misdemeanor); and Unlawfully Possessing Noxious Materials (a B misdemeanor).

The defendant pleaded not guilty and was remanded. He is due back in court on April 20, 2026. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison.

“This defendant was a jealous, possessive, and jilted former boyfriend of the victim, who could not accept that his months-long relationship had run its course. With his co-defendant and high school friend, Terrell Campbell, Shaquille Coke allegedly carried out a vicious and vindictive attack to mutilate the young woman who ended their relationship,” said DA Donnelly. “After the attack, Coke tried to distance himself from the attack while secretly sending vulgar messages to Nafiah Ikram, calling her cruel and disgusting names from a spoofed phone number. Coke said that ‘karma’ would get Nafiah, but justice has come for him. I want to thank our partners at the Nassau County Police Department for their tireless detective work over the last five years to see the individuals allegedly responsible for this horrific attack held accountable.”

DA Donnelly said, according to the indictment, on March 17, 2021, at approximately 8:30 p.m. the victim and her mother were returning to their home in Elmont after the victim had finished working a shift at a local pharmacy in Baldwin.

The victim’s mother went into the family home while the victim was collecting belongings from the back of their vehicle.

As she walked up to the front door, co-defendant Terrell Campbell, dressed in a hooded sweatshirt, mask and gloves, allegedly approached the victim with a cup of liquid and threw it at her.

The liquid, later determined to be 70% sulfuric acid, covered the victim’s face, chest, entered her throat and splashed in her eye.

The victim collapsed on her front lawn and Campbell allegedly fled.

She was rushed into intensive care at Nassau University Medical Center where she was treated for second and third-degree burns to her face, arms, wrists, shoulders, right eye and esophagus.

Over the past five years, the Nassau County Police Department and NCDA have continued to conduct a thorough investigation involving various video, cell phone, and other technological evidence, as well as dozens of interviews, to identify the individuals responsible for the attack.

The evidence, including cell phone records and text messages, indicates that Shaquille Coke, Nafiah Ikram’s ex-boyfriend, met up with Campbell approximately one hour before the attack, helping to confirm the theory that Coke was driving the car used in the attack.

The defendant also allegedly created a fake Snapchat profile – Wheezy Durel – in the weeks before the attack, posing as another individual, to contact the victim and ask her questions about her fidelity to her relationship with Coke and how serious she believed the relationship had been.

Two months after the attack, the defendant allegedly used a spoof telephone number to contact the victim with vulgar messages. In the messages, the defendant also allegedly called the victim “Freddy Kruger,” referring to her injuries after the attack.

Coke also allegedly made statements to police that he had told Campbell he wanted something “devastating” to happen to the victim and that “karma” would take care of her.

Coke and co-defendant Campbell are friends and attended the same high school in Brooklyn.

Coke is currently a Brooklyn resident and pursuing a degree in nursing.

Co-defendant Terrell Campbell, 29, was arrested on February 9, 2026, and arraigned on February 10, 2026, on charges of two counts of Assault in the First Degree (a B violent felony); Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree (an A misdemeanor); and Unlawfully Possessing Noxious Materials (a B misdemeanor). He pleaded not guilty and was remanded. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison.

Coke was arrested in Brooklyn by detectives of the Nassau County Police Department on March 24, 2026.

NCDA thanks the Nassau County Police Department, the New York City Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their partnership in this investigation and prosecution.

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