North Texas couple brutally attacked after Dallas Cowboys game; suspect arrested, police say
A North Texas couple is recovering from a brutal assault after a Dallas Cowboys game last month that sent them to the hospital.
Lindsey and Wenceslao Gonzalez told KTVT-TV that the Sept. 22 attack, which left Lindsey with multiple fractures to her face and Wenceslao with torn ligaments in his leg, turned their world upside down.
The couple and their daughter had just left AT&T Stadium in Arlington after attending their first Cowboys game. According to KTVT, they saw a man screaming at a young woman and tried to intervene.
“She was sobbing and she looked scared and she looked very similar to the age of my daughter,” Lindsey Gonzalez told KTVT.
The man hit Wenceslao Gonzalez in the face and then struck Lindsey Gonzalez when she tried to separate them. Witnesses told police that the suspect also kicked Lindsey Gonzalez in the face while she was lying unconscious on the ground, KTVT reported.
Rafael Antonio Ramirez, 32, was arrested in connection with the attack. He faces two charges of assault causing bodily injury, according to court records. He bonded out of the Tarrant County Jail on Sept. 23.
“It’s good that you try to be a good Samaritan, but at the same time, what’s going to happen if I am going to be a good Samaritan?” Wenceslao Gonzalez told KTVT.
The 39-year-old underwent surgery to repair torn ligaments in his leg and neither he nor his wife has been able to work since the attack, KTVT reported. Lindsey Gonzalez, 40, suffered extensive damage to her face, including a broken jaw and fractures to her nose and around her left eye.
The couple said they hope what happened to them serves as a wake-up call for the young woman they stepped in to help.
“If I saved her, then it was worth it,” Lindsey Gonzalez said to KTVT. “If I save one person, or if I help one person or one woman or anybody by putting my story out there, then it’s worth it.”
This story was originally published October 5, 2024 at 6:33 PM.
