Widow of man killed in Chick-fil-A restaurant in North Texas speaks out

LEWISVILLE, Texas – Bryan Alexis Godoy has been identified as one of two Chick-fil-A employees killed in Lewisville on Wednesday.

His widow spoke exclusively to WFAA from Guatemala, where she lives with her four children.

“He was an excellent father,” Heydy de Godoy told WFAA in Spanish over Zoom.

Heydy said her five-year-old daughter keeps asking her to call her father. “And I don’t know how to tell her he’s never going to call again,” she cried.

“I tell her he’s been working all day. And she says, ‘Mom, it’s late and Dad still hasn’t called.'”

Bryan, Heydy said, came to the States to give them a better life. He was hardworking and humble. He sent every check home and called every night.

“I grab my phone and I’m still waiting for another call from him,” she cried. “I see his phone number, his last call, and I text him, ‘Bryan, call me.’ Even though I know he’s not going to call again.”

Heydy asked that everyone remember her husband for who he was, not how he died.

As a funny guy with an infectious smile, a respectful, responsible man who loved God, and a father who worked at a Chick-fil-A more than a thousand miles away from his babies to give them the best future possible.

“I screamed: God, why? Why did this happen? I depended on him. What should I do now?”

Police have not yet released a motive for the shooting. Heydy said she can’t imagine why someone would want to harm her husband.

“I don’t know why he did it,” she cried. “But he didn’t know what Bryan would leave behind. His four children and me.”

The family has started this GoFundMe campaign to raise money for funeral expenses.