{"id":260709,"date":"2026-04-22T05:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260709\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:34:15","slug":"three-year-old-recovering-after-brutal-attack-at-espada-park-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260709\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-year-old recovering after brutal attack at Espada Park over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A three-year-old is recovering after she and her mother were attacked at Espada Park over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriella Perez says she and her daughter were fishing with their family when a man ran up to them, pulled her hair, and punched her.<\/p>\n<p>She says the man then jumped on her daughter and began biting her on the face.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/man-arrested-after-violent-attack-at-espada-park-child-seriously-injured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man arrested after violent attack at Espada Park, child seriously injured<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gabriella started pulling his hair to get him off her daughter when several good Samaritans intervened and began kicking and punching the man. They restrained him until police arrived.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"24-year-old Atharva Vyas was arrested Saturday afternoon after allegedly assaulting a woman and a toddler at Espada Park. (BCSO)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776836055_879_b80cd09f-bc6a-4879-b80a-7368054cc039-VYASATHARVa.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>24-year-old Atharva Vyas was arrested Saturday afternoon after allegedly assaulting a woman and a toddler at Espada Park. (BCSO)<\/p>\n<p>Police have identified the man as 24-year-old Atharva Vyas. He is now charged with aggravated assault and assault causing bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl lost two teeth in the attack. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-our-family-after-traumatic-attack?attribution_id=sl:b6fd63c9-849b-474e-9b09-f58ca0d078e0&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1776636935&amp;utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&amp;utm_content=amp17_control-amp20_t1&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link&amp;fbclid=IwRlRTSARTZJ9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeSDZzCOMRnqN0nK3MxZepdEuX5R0N2fx73qZp-vjC7D6NDsXXmCF05pIOXK4_aem_XXzMMT50G1yEeuOpShSpGw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GoFundMe has been launched by the family<\/a> in the wake of the attack, citing the child&#8217;s significant trauma as a result of the violent attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A three-year-old is recovering after she and her mother were attacked at Espada Park over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-260709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}