{"id":658067,"date":"2013-05-15T08:56:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T12:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=229992"},"modified":"2013-05-15T08:56:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T12:56:52","slug":"singer-attacked-in-houston-injured-in-bar-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658067","title":{"rendered":"Singer Attacked In Houston, Injured In Bar Brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

The singer of a hugely popular Tejano group was attacked<\/a> outside a Houston bar on Monday night and suffered severe injuries to the face. <\/p>\n

Oscar De La Rosa of La Mafia was reportedly standing outside a gay bar<\/a> when he and his driver were attacked by an unidentified man who has so far eluded police. Witnesses say De La Rosa didn’t have a chance to defend himself in the attack, and as a result he suffered several lacerations to the face, damage to his eye, and lost two teeth. The band released a statement about his condition on their Facebook page:<\/p>\n

“Oscar De La Rosa was assaulted around 1:30 AM this morning leaving a local bar in Houston. He is still in trauma care at Memorial Herman Hospital (sic). He has suffered severe face lacerations and possible damage to his right eye. A police report has been filed and the identity of the assailant has been confirmed, assault charges will be filed as soon he is located.”<\/p>\n

Several reports say that the attack was unprovoked, but band member Armando Lichtenberger said it started with an altercation inside the club which led to the man being kicked out.<\/p>\n

“He sucker-punched the driver, knocked him half unconscious and then he went at Oscar and started pounding on his face,” Lichtenberger said<\/a>. “A sucker punch is the worst thing. He didn’t get to defend himself at all. It happened so fast.”<\/p>\n

The band hasn’t decided yet whether they will need to cancel<\/a> or postpone any performances.<\/p>\n

Image: Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n

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The singer of a hugely popular Tejano group was attacked outside a Houston bar on Monday night and suffered severe injuries to the face. Oscar De La Rosa of La Mafia was reportedly standing outside a gay bar when he and his driver were attacked by an unidentified man who has so far eluded police. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}