A man has been arrested in relation to the violent beating of a woman who celebrated her Bachelorette weekend in Dallas last week.
Canada Rinaldi, 27, was visiting Texas with friends when a man who did not know attacked her in the morning on March 23, police said. The Dallas Police Department identified the suspect as Trevon Woodards.
Police said Woodards was arrested on Friday by the Bedford Police Department, a jurisdiction in the out of Dallas.
Rinaldi told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth that she and her friends went down from Oklahoma to organize her Bachelorette weekend in the city. His wedding is in a month, and Rinaldi now has a brain shock, a broken nose, three broken teeth and eight suture points in the face.
Kelly Peralta, an aunt of Rinaldi’s fiance, told NBC DFW that the group left a club and walked down the street to an uber when a man Coguabó.
“We started walking down the street to enter the Uber, and that was when he came from behind and hit Canada, and she went down directly, and I turned to move him away, and that was when he got me,” Peralta said.
Peralta had a purple eye after the assault.
A Gofundme for Rinaldi said the future girlfriend has more than $ 10,000 in medical expenses between the cost of the ambulance and the hospital stay. The Crowdfunding campaign raised almost $ 20,000 for Sunday.
“We are incredibly grateful for every donation, sharing and kind messages,” her friend wrote on the page. “His generosity and support mean the world and have brought so much comfort for such a difficult time.”
Judicial records for Woodards in the case were not immediately available. Inmate records show that he remained in custody until Sunday afternoon and is not clear if he has retained a lawyer.
The records of the Dallas County Court show that Woodards was accused of assault for serious crime in September 2021, but declared himself guilty of a minor position of minor crime.
A police report presented in the case of 2021 said that Woodards had interfered with the arrest of a person with a guarantee of serious crime, demanding “knowing what was happening.” The officers told him to go back three times before Woodards grabbed the shirt and head of an officer and “began to look at the officer,” according to the report.
The officers surprised Woodards with an electric gun and arrested him, according to the police report.
He was sentenced to a year of community service and seems to have spent 10 days in jail for a violation in his probation in February, according to judicial records.
