Woman, 18, found dead in Brooklyn home; 26-year-old boyfriend charged with murder

An 18-year-old woman was found dead Friday in the home of her Brooklyn boyfriend, who was charged with her murder, police said.

Officers answered a call for an injured person on W. Sixth St. near Avenue O in Bensonhurst about 10:15 a.m., where they discovered Damaris Maravilla unresponsive in a bedroom.

Maravilla was lying face up on a bed with trauma to her body, said cops. Medics pronounced her dead at the scene.

The victim’s 26-year-old boyfriend, Dylan Diaz, was soon arrested, and he was charged later on Friday, police said.

Maravilla and Diaz lived in separate addresses on the same block, said cops.

The couple had dated for about one and a half years, said Miguel Troche, a neighbor. “I knew he would beat her up but I never thought it would come to this,” said Troche, 58.

Over time, Troche became concerned enough to ask Maravilla if she needed help breaking it off.

“I said if you want to get away from this guy, I’ll help you,” Troche said he told Maravilla. “But she said, ‘No, everything’s all right.’

“I just spoke to that girl. It hurts. I was shocked but not surprised.”

Diaz and Maravilla have a child together and officers were called at least four times when the couple had heated arguments over custody, police sources said.

The couple’s child is two or three months old, said Troche. “She looks like a baby and she just had a baby with this guy,” he said.

Neighbors often saw Diaz in the street acting erratically.

“I spoke to him yesterday,” Troche said of the boyfriend. “He’s just crazy, walking back and forth in the street off his medication. He’s really off his medication, always asking for cigarettes.”

Another neighbor said police were often called to the block due to Diaz’s behavior.

“He’d be arrested,” said the woman, who did not want to be named. “I don’t know how many times, but they always let him go.”

As Maravilla’s body was removed from the house, almost a dozen members of her family wailed and rushed the gurney. “She was loved,” sobbed a brother.