Father and Daughter Charged In Super Bowl Beating

OAK LAWN, IL -- A father and daughter were arrested when they beat up his girlfriend after a Super Bowl party, prosecutors said. Brandon Garcia, 39, and his 19-year-old daughter Alexis, appeared before Cook County Judge John Mahoney on a felony charge of aggravated domestic battery. Alexis Garcia was also charged with misdemeanor consumption of liquor by a minor.

The prosecutor said the father and daughter went to a Super Bowl party in Aurora, along with the dad’s girlfriend. While at the party, Brandon Garcia’s girlfriend was talking to another man when Garcia demanded her cell phone. On the way home to the South Side of Chicago, father and daughter were riding in the front seat and the girlfriend was in the backseat. The argument continued in the car when Brandon Garcia allegedly reached back and punched his girlfriend. The prosecutor said Garcia hit the woman again and her face began to bleed.

Brandon Garcia pulled the car over at 95th Street and 54th Avenue in Oak Lawn. He punched the woman a second time, drawing blood, the prosecutor said. While her father held the woman down, Alexis began punching her, according to the charges. A passing Oak Lawn police officer saw a bloody woman trying to escape from the car and stopped to render aid. The prosecutor said Brandon admitted to backhanding the woman. The father and daughter were both taken into custody.

The prosecutor said Brandon Garcia has a prior felony for assault with a deadly weapon in 1997.

The assistant public defender told the judge that Garcia is a railroad worker. She touted Garcia’s strong community ties.

“Strong ties to the community isn’t getting him anywhere,” Mahoney said.

His daughter’s attorney said Alexis attends College of DuPage and works as a server. She’d only been living with her father a few days. Her mother drove in from out of state to attend her daughter’s bond hearing. She needed to get some of her personal belongings out of her father’s house.

“I’m not going to get involved with that,” the judge said.

Brandon Garcia’s bail was set at $50,000; his daughter Alexis’s at $20,000. Both are due back in court March 1.