A man was arrested in connection with the violent suit of a woman who celebrated her bachelor weekend in Dallas last week.
Canada Rinaldi, 27, visited Texas with friends when a man she didn't know attacked her in the early morning hours on March 23, the police said. The Dallas police identified the suspect as Trevon Woodards.
The police said that Woodards was arrested on Friday by the police of Bedford, a jurisdiction in the suburbs outside Dallas.
Rinaldi told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth that she and her friends from Oklahoma came to organize her bachelor weekend in the city. Her wedding is in a month and Rinaldi now has a concussion, a broken nose, three broken teeth and eight stitches on her face.
Kelly Peralta, an aunt of the fiancée of Rinaldi, told NBC DFW that the group left a club and walked the street to a Uber when they were blind by a man.
“We started to walk into the street to get into the uber, and then he came from behind and he hit Canada, and she immediately went down, and I turned to push him away, and then he got me,” Peralta said.
Peralta had a black eye after the attack.
A GoFundme for Rinaldi said that the upcoming bride has more than $ 10,000 in medical costs between the costs of the ambulance and the stay in the hospital. The crowdfunding campaign raised nearly $ 20,000 on Sunday.
“We are so incredibly grateful for every donation, share and friendly message,” her friend wrote on the page. “Your generosity and support mean the world and have brought so much comfort in such a difficult time.”
Court reports for Woodards in the case were not immediately available. Prisoner data shows that he has remained in custody from Sunday afternoon and it is unclear whether he has retained a lawyer.
Records of the Dallas County district show that Woodards was accused of a crime attack in September 2021, but argued guilty of a lesser crime.
A police report submitted in the case 2021 said that Woodards had disrupted the arrest of a person with crime and demanded to “know what was going on.” Officers were told to support three times before Woodards took the shirt of an officer and the head and 'started gushing', the officer, the report said.
Officers shocked Woodards with a Stun gun and arrested him, the police report said.
He was sentenced to a year of community service and seems to have spent 10 days in prison for a violation of his probationary period in February, according to the court reports.
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