‘They took nothing, yet they took everything’: Groom shot in the head during backyard wedding ceremony as home invasion goes awry

Manuel Gonzalez, on the left; Dulce Gonzalez, on the right

Left: Manuel Gonzalez; Right: Dulce Gonzalez (GoFundMe)

Where love, joy, and excitement should reign, a St. Louis family is instead overcome with grief, loss, and fear after a home invasion turned a wedding reception into a violent crime scene.

Francisco Manuel Gonzalez, 32, married the love of his life, Dulce Pena-Villa Gonzalez, 32, on the evening of June 28. The ceremony was small and held at the family’s home on Neosho Street in the Dutchtown neighborhood, on the sprawling, suburban city’s south side.

As the celebration went on into the early morning hours of Saturday, two masked men with guns arrived through an opening along the driveway and changed the course of several lives forever.

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