Video: Thug sucker-punches 68-year-old market worker in face, knocks him out. Victim suffers fractured skull, brain bleeding.

Authorities have accused a 25-year-old male of sucker-punching a 68-year-old market worker in the face, knocking out the victim and hospitalizing him with a fractured skull and brain bleeding.

What are the details?

Surveillance video shows Carlos Munguia taking out the trash as part of his job at Sun Valley Market and Liquor in Winchester, California, late last month, KTLA-TV reported.

Video also shows a man approaching Munguia and beginning to talk to him, when the man suddenly punches Munguia in the face.

Image source: KTLA-TV video screenshot

Munguia falls on his back and is knocked unconscious, the station said, as the back of his head hits the surface of the parking lot. The attacker runs off.

Image source: KTLA-TV video screenshot

“We don’t know what the conversation was about,” Alma Romero, the victim’s daughter-in-law, told KTLA. “Maybe he was asking for money, but Carlos is a person that will give money to a person that needs it. If they need food, he would give it to them.”

Image source: KTLA-TV video screenshot

Munguia's wife, who works at the market with him, told KTLA she noticed he’d been gone for a while, but she didn't know anything was wrong until a customer helped Munguia to his feet and brought him back into the market.

Initially Munguia thought he simply fell down, but his family learned what actually happened after viewing the surveillance video, the station said.

Munguia has been hospitalized ever since the Oct. 27 attack, KTLA said, adding that his family said he suffered a fractured skull and brain bleeding and has a lengthy road to recovery ahead of him.

Image source: KTLA-TV video screenshot

“Right now, he barely opens his eyes. There’s times that he knows who we are and days where he doesn’t know who we are,” Alma Romero, the victim’s daughter-in-law, told the station. “It’s sad. We can’t talk to him or bring him home.”

Who is the suspect?

Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies arrested suspect Izack Ramirez of Winchester the day after the attack, KTLA said, adding that authorities said they found evidence of the crime while serving a search warrant at Ramirez's home.

Image source: KTLA-TV video screenshot

“We just want this guy to stay in jail, do his time,” Romero noted to the station. “It’s not fair that he hit an elderly 68-year-old that wasn’t doing anything wrong.”

KTLA said Ramirez has pleaded not guilty in the face of numerous felony charges, including inflicting great bodily injury to an elder. The station said he's due back in court Friday.

Munguia’s family also launched a GoFundMe page to help with medical expenses, which include surgeries and his hospital stay.

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