NASCAR driver Mike Wallace says he and his daughter Lindsey were attacked Friday night at PNC Music Pavilion after the Rascal Flatts concert.
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On Sunday, Wallace said three men he has never met repeatedly punched and kicked him and his family. He said he is still shaken up about the “beat-down.”
“We’ve never been through anything like this,” Wallace said.
The police report from the incident was released Monday after the alleged assault. The reports states there was a verbal altercation prior to the physical fight.
Wallace said his three front teeth were knocked a few inches into his mouth, his black eye is causing impaired vision and his lip now has ten stitches. His daughter was taken away from the parking lot on a stretcher and moved to the hospital.
“They just knocked me out. When I come to, my daughter is laying on the ground, my son-in-law were on top of me trying to protect me,” Wallace said. “They were kicking me, beating on me.”
Graphic photos posted to social media show Mike with a bruised and bloodied face and Lindsey on a stretcher.
Wallace sat down with WBTV Monday and talked more in detail about what he remembers.
Wallace said he was leaving a concert Friday night when he talked to someone in a landscaping truck parked in front of him.
“A young man on the back of the truck, and he just started going crazy screaming at everybody, the cuss words,” Wallace said. “That’s all I remember. The only part that I remember of it is saying ‘man, what’s your problem, what’s going on?'”
Paul Lucas, Nathan Lucas and Randolph Mangum were all arrested Friday night. Two of the men were charged with one count of simple assault each. The other man was charged with assault on a female. Paul Lucas, Jr is listed as the president of Lucas Lawn and Landscaping.
“I don’t think it would be right to just let them go. I have nothing to gain out of it,” Wallace said of his alleged attackers.
Kenny Wallace, Mike’s brother and NASCAR analyst, tweeted about the violent attack to update fans on his brother’s condition and to raise awareness of the assault.
“I’ve talked to Mike this morning,” Kenny tweeted. “He is down in the dumps. Beat up badly and can’t see out of one eye. I WILL MAKE SURE THIS MAKES NEWS!!!!”
