Woman attacked at Dallas park waited one day before police responded

DALLAS - Dallas police are investigating an attack on a woman in a Dallas Park. However, she wants to know why it took police a full day to respond. 

That attack happened Friday morning at Urbandale Park in Pleasant Grove. The victim says it was the next morning before police tried to make contact with her. 

The park is on Military Parkway between Jim Miller Road and Buckner. The attack happened in an area blocked from the view of passing drivers by a bank of trees and shrubs.

Urbandale Park is kind of just a neighborhood park. There’s no parking space for people. It’s for folks who live in the area and walk there.

For one woman who has lived there 20 years and brought her kids here as they grew up, she walked into a man who had something sinister in his heart.

The woman is detailing the attack against her Friday around 9 a.m. as she entered the park to exercise. 

Still shaken, she asked FOX 4 to not show her face or use her real name.

"He came up behind me, and he put this side of my arm… like behind my neck," she recalled. "And once I felt that, I went into fight mode. I fought him with everything that was in me."

The woman says the masked man was pulling her as she fought to break free and that he yelled something to another man who was standing off watching.

She says she was afraid for her life.

"I didn't want to be found in this park. I didn't want my kids to have to find their mom in the park that she took us to as kids," she said.

The struggle lasted seconds. But to her, time stood still.

"This is where I finally got loose from him, and I just broke," she said. "I just ran."

She kept running and finally stopped to call 911.

"I called 911, and it went to voicemail," she said.

She says she called three or four times. No one called back, but an officer knocked on her door Saturday morning at 6 a.m. She was asleep.

It was Sunday before she could connect and make a report.

Former Park Board Member Yolanda Williams is part of the department’s Volunteers in Patrol.

"We're gonna walk. We're waiting to get the flyers made, and we're gonna let the neighbors know what’s going on," she said.

The woman who was attacked doesn’t think she’ll return to the park ever again.

"I got chill bumps. Ny heart is racing fast just to come here now," she said. "This will never be my family park again."

The detective assigned to the case met with the woman for the better part of an hour on Tuesday.Dallas police are investigating an attack on a woman in a Dallas Park. However, she wants to know why it took police a full day to respond. 

That attack happened Friday morning at Urbandale Park in Pleasant Grove. The victim says it was the next morning before police tried to make contact with her. 

The park is on Military Parkway between Jim Miller Road and Buckner. The attack happened in an area blocked from the view of passing drivers by a bank of trees and shrubs.

Urbandale Park is kind of just a neighborhood park. There’s no parking space for people. It’s for folks who live in the area and walk there.

For one woman who has lived there 20 years and brought her kids here as they grew up, she walked into a man who had something sinister in his heart.

The woman is detailing the attack against her Friday around 9 a.m. as she entered the park to exercise. 

Still shaken, she asked FOX 4 to not show her face or use her real name.

"He came up behind me, and he put this side of my arm… like behind my neck," she recalled. "And once I felt that, I went into fight mode. I fought him with everything that was in me."

The woman says the masked man was pulling her as she fought to break free and that he yelled something to another man who was standing off watching.

She says she was afraid for her life.

"I didn't want to be found in this park. I didn't want my kids to have to find their mom in the park that she took us to as kids," she said.

The struggle lasted seconds. But to her, time stood still.

"This is where I finally got loose from him, and I just broke," she said. "I just ran."

She kept running and finally stopped to call 911.

"I called 911, and it went to voicemail," she said.

She says she called three or four times. No one called back, but an officer knocked on her door Saturday morning at 6 a.m. She was asleep.

It was Sunday before she could connect and make a report.

Former Park Board Member Yolanda Williams is part of the department’s Volunteers in Patrol.

"We're gonna walk. We're waiting to get the flyers made, and we're gonna let the neighbors know what’s going on," she said.

The woman who was attacked doesn’t think she’ll return to the park ever again.

"I got chill bumps. Ny heart is racing fast just to come here now," she said. "This will never be my family park again."

The detective assigned to the case met with the woman for the better part of an hour on Tuesday.