By Vicky Wedig
Staff Writer
A trial was confirmed Nov. 29 for a Walworth man charged with attempted hom-icide for allegedly beating a man with a baseball bat.
A trial was set for April 17 to 21 for Gabino Dominguez Gonzalez, 42, at a final pre-trial hearing Nov. 29. Another pretrial hearing was set for April 11.
Gonzalez was charged Jan. 5 in Walworth County Circuit Court with attempted first-degree intentional homicide and aggravated battery, both with domestic abuse assessments.
According to the com-plaint, Gonzalez and a 23-year-old man with whom he lives on Beloit Street in Walworth went out to the Show Palace in the Town of Darien where they drank Dec. 26, according to the criminal complaint. Gonzalez said the man became angry when Gonzalez wanted to leave the club, they began to argue, and the man punched Gonzalez in the parking lot and said, “I’m going to hell and taking you with me,” according to the complaint. A manager intervened, Gonzalez told police.
Gonzalez and the man returned to their Walworth home where Gonzalez said the man attacked him when he came out of the bathroom, according to the complaint. Gonzalez said he grabbed a baseball bat and hit the man three or four times, according to the complaint.
The man was lying face up in a bedroom when police arrived with no shirt on, bruising on his upper body and blood on his face and head and the floor, according to the complaint.
The man was taken to Mercy Hospital in Janesville with facial fractures, sill fractures, bleeding on his brain, bruising and swelling on his chest and shoulders, severe deformity of his face, contusions on his abdomen, a cut on his head and a detached retina, according to the com-plaint.
Gonzalez’s wife said she left the apartment with her daughter after Gonzalez called her to the parking lot of the apartment building at about 11:50 p.m. and said he was “going to show (victim) who was in charge,” accord-in to the complaint. She returned to the home and had her daughter call 911 en route when a neighbor called her and said the fight was “turn-in nasty.” The woman said Gonzalez is abusive and she fears for herself and her daughters, according to the complaint.
Two knives were found near the victim, and a knife was found in his pocket, but Gonzalez said the man had no weapons when Gonzalez hit him with the bat, accord-in to the complaint.
