NASCAR driver Mike Wallace attacked after Rascal Flatts concert
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NASCAR driver Mike Wallace says he and his daughter were attacked after attending a Rascal Flatts concert in North Carolina.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police told local media three men have been arrested after the attack Friday night at the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte. CBS affiliate WBTV is not naming the men because an arrest report has not yet become available and police could not confirm the men were connected to Wallace's attack.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police didn't immediately return a call for comment from CBS News' Crimesider.
I've talked to Mike this morning. He is down in the dumps. Beat up badly and can't see out of one eye. I WILL MAKE SURE THIS MAKES NEWS!!!!
— Kenny Wallace (@Kenny_Wallace) June 19, 2016
Wallace said three men he had never met punched and kicked him as he was leaving the concert. Wallace told WBTV the men knocked him unconscious. He said the men also attacked his daughter Lindsey as she tried to protect him.
"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 told the station.
Wallace says three front teeth were knocked a few inches into his mouth and he has a black eye that is causing impaired vision. He also said he had 10 stitches in his lip.
Graphic photos posted to social media show Mike Wallace with a bruised and bloodied face. Via Twitter, his brother Kenny Wallace, a NASCAR analyst, called the assault a "goon" attack.
Kenny Wallace said that the men continued to kick Mike Wallace while he was unconscious and that they kicked his daughter in the ribs when she tried to intervene.
"The number ONE question I get from the NASCAR world is 'What did Mike do?'" Kenny Wallace said via Twitter. "Sad part is Mike did nothing. It was a GOON attack."