Indian Country Today reported that three men armed with baseball bats, knives and a crowbar confronted Johnny Bonta and his son-in-law while they were traveling along I-80 in Fernley, Nevada with their family. The three men are Neo-Nazis.
The Bontas, members of the Reno Sparks Indian Colony, said they first encountered the men at a gas station and tried to avoid confrontation by quickly driving away. But the three men pursued them in their own car, cutting them off and causing an accident. A vicious fight ensued, in which Johnny was knocked unconscious with a bat and had his nose and sinus cavities broken. His son-in-law suffered a crushed elbow and a broken hand.
'I saw one of them hit my husband in the head with a bat, and the other one was trying to cut off his braid with a knife,' Johnny's wife, Lisa Bonta, said. 'Johnny was covered in blood and they just kept hitting him with a crow bar. They even tried to slit his throat.'
