An ex-con with a lengthy rap sheet was arrested for a brutal assault on a bride-to-be at her bachelorette party in Dallas which left the young woman with a broken nose, three broken teeth and a facial injury weeks.
Trevon Woodards was taken into custody Friday in connection with the March 22 attack on Canada Rinaldi just four weeks before her wedding.
It’s unclear why Woodards, 27, who was recently granted parole and has a lengthy rap sheet, allegedly began punching Rinaldi, also 27 – leaving her unconscious with serious injuries and needing eight stitches on her face, Fox 4 reported.
“‘I just didn’t deserve it,” Rinaldi told WFAA. “It’s just shocking, it’ just hard to believe.”
Police have not publicly discussed a motive for the attack.
“On the night of Saturday, March 22, our beautiful friend was celebrating her bachelorette party—what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life,” her friends wrote in a GoFundMe to help Rinaldi defray some of the $10,000 in medical bills she’s incurred since the incident.
“Instead, it turned into a nightmare,” they wrote, adding, “She is now trying to heal – not only physically, but emotionally and financially – when she should be counting down the days to her wedding.”
Rinaldi had been having the time of her life right before the out-of-the-blue attack, she said.
“It just feels like a lot of my experiences were taken away from me,” she told WFAA. “I feel like I’m not excited to plan my wedding anymore.”
But she said she’s determined to stay optimistic.
“I’m getting there, I’ll be okay, but it’s hard. But I’ll be okay,” she said.
