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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University erects statue of Greta Thunberg, outrages students who suggest misuse of funds



Greta Thunberg may be just a teenager, but she already has her own statue.

The University of Winchester, located in south England, erected a life-size bronze statue in Thunberg's honor on Tuesday, sparking backlash among students who believe university funds should have been more wisely spent.

The Greta Thunberg statue at University of Winchester. (Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

In a press release, school officials said the statue represents the school's "ongoing commitment to sustainability and social justice" and its "commitment to combat the climate and ecological emergency."

The school's vice chancellor, Joy Carter, said:

Greta is a young woman who, in spite of difficulties in her life, has become a world leading environmental activist. As the University for sustainability and social justice we are proud to honour this inspirational woman in this way.

We know that many find her a controversial figure. As a University we welcome reasoned debate and critical conversations. We hope her statue will help to inspire our community, reminding us that no matter what life throws at us we can still change the world for the better. That is a message we want all our students and all young people to hear.

According to the BBC, the statue cost nearly £24,000, which is the equivalent of $33,000.

What did students say?

Megan Ball, president of the Winchester Student Union, said that Winchester students could not support the statue and called on university officials to replace the money they spent on it.

"We're in a COVID year, lots of students haven't really had access to campus, lots of them are trying to study online and are in dire need of support," she said, the BBC reported.

"We are calling on the university to match the statue cost by committing £23,760 in additional funding to student support services across campus," Ball added. "We urge them to publicly face the critical issues which students are highlighting and provide a transparent breakdown of additional and existing financial support."

Ultimately, the student union called the statue a "vanity project."

We have just passed the following motion regarding @_UoW’s decision to spend £24k on a statue of Greta Thunberg aft… https://t.co/MGmowi4Bpk
— Winchester UCU (@Winchester UCU)1616608836.0

Did the school divert funds allocated for students?

Carter said that no funds meant for students were allocated to finance the statue.

"We are aware of some concerns raised about the financing of the statue. The statue was commissioned in 2019 as part of the West Downs project from funds which could only be spent on that building. No money was diverted from student support or from staffing to finance the West Downs project," Carter explained.

In fact, the university administrator said that students have received an abundance of COVID-related financial assistance.

"The university has spent £5.2m this year on student support, processed £382k in government hardship funds for students in addition to our own hardship funding, established a new IT access fund of £100k, grown the teams that support student wellbeing and spent £1.5m additional funding to support teaching, learning and health and safety during the pandemic," Carter said.