Video shows Danry Vasquez proposing to girlfriend

A little more than a year after rising baseball star Danry Vasquez was arrested for beating his girlfriend Fabiana Perez in a shocking attack caught on surveillance footage, the 24-year-old Venezuelan got down on one knee and proposed to the same woman.

She said yes. 

On Thursday, DailyMail.com uncovered video of Vasquez’s proposal to Fabiana, which took place on a beach in his home country in November.

 

The girlfriend who was beat by her Venezuelan baseball player boyfriend said yes when he proposed to her a little more than a year later. Danry Vasquez and his fiancée Fabiana pictured above at their engagement

Video surfaced on Thursday showing the couple’s engagement in November on a beach in Venezuela

Vasquez carried his blindfolded girlfriend up onto the beach and set her down on the sand

When he took off her blindfold, she saw giant letters in the sand spelling out ‘Will you marry me?’ in Spanish

Fabiana then turns around and sees her boyfriend down on one knee with an engagement ring

Fabiana doubles over and starts to cry before getting up to accept the ring

Vasquez puts the ring on Fabiana, who he has been dating since the two were teens

The video ends with the two kissing and then posing for pictures with their gathered friends and family

Later, the couple posed for pictures in the water with their bathing suits 

The couple are pictured with their friends and family who turned up for the event 

The video shows the outfielder carry his girlfriend off a boat and up onto the beach. 

When she takes off her blindfold, she finds herself standing in front of giant letters set up on the sand that read ‘Will you marry me?’ in Spanish.

She then turns around and sees Vasquez down on one knee, a ring in his hand. 

Fabiana doubles over and starts to cry before getting up, shaking her head ‘yes’ and accepting the ring. 

The two then kiss and pose for pictures in front of their gathered family and friends. 

The man who posted the video on Facebook four months ago wrote in Spanish that Vasquez was playing baseball for a Venezuelan team at the time, and that Fabiana had come down to visit him.

She knew she was being taken to a beach, but had no idea that he planned to propose.

Vasquez was fired from the Lancaster Barnstormers this week when video emerged showing his August 2016 assault on Fabiana in the stairwell of a Houston baseball stadium 

In the video, Vasquez is seen punching Fabiana repeatedly and dragging her by her hair

Vasquez is seen above striking his girlfriend again in the surveillance video

He is seen above picking up her glasses after hitting her with his hand

Vasquez signed a contract with a $1.2 million signing bonus with the Detroit Tigers when he was 16 years old before being traded to the Astros. His mug shot is seen on the right

After the video surfaced, Vasquez’s current team, the Lancaster Barnstormers, announced that he had been released

Danry was arrested in August 2016, when he was caught on surveillance footage beating Fabiana up in a stairwell of Houston’s Whataburger field, where he was playing for a Houston Astros feeder team. 

He was subsequently released from the team but had the charges dropped when he agreed to pay a fine and take classes. 

In January, it looked like his career was on the mend when he was signed by the Lancaster Barnstormers, a team in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. 

But on Monday, video of the 2016 attack surfaced, and he was let go by the team. 

This picture was posted on Facebook in October 2016, two months after the incident

Vasquez and his girlfriend are seen above at a baseball stadium in this undated file photo

The video is horrific, showing Vasquez repeatedly striking Fabiana and pulling her hair. 

TMZ reported Thursday that Fabiana stayed by his side after the attack, pleading with prosecutors not to pursue charges, insisting it was an isolated incident.   

Danry’s attorney told the outlet: ‘I recall conversations about the extreme stress he was under and the pressures to perform that he was young. Came to USA at a young age with no parents (accommodating him) and no guidance … just his dreams. She never excused his behavior just loved him enough to believe they could move forward.’

The couple has allegedly been dating since they were teens, meeting in Fabiana’s home country of Mexico while Danry was playing baseball there. 

Vasquez was once a potential star. He signed a contract with a $1.2 million signing bonus with the Detroit Tigers when he was 16 years old before being traded to the Astros.

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