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Police investigating alleged assault of man behind west Toledo Marco's Pizza

The victim is alive and in critical condition after the alleged assault on Halloween, Toledo police and ProMedica say. It is not known if there are any suspects.

TOLEDO, Ohio — EDITOR'S NOTE: The article has been updated to reflect that the victim is not homeless. 

Felix Ronau has worked at the Marco's Pizza in west Toledo's Library Village for five years.

On Halloween last week, he and a group of employees were told by a customer something was wrong outside of the restaurant at 1234 W. Sylvania Ave.

"I just cannot even get across why you would do something like this to a person," Ronau said. "We see him laying over here, just face first into the ground. His arm was up on the railing, there was just blood everywhere, blood on his shirt, blood on the back of his head."

According to a report from the Toledo Police Department, officers responded shortly after 1 p.m. on Halloween to a call of 71-year-old Thomas Loeffler, who was injured and lying on a parking barrier in an empty lot behind the pizza shop after allegedly

"I couldn't even make out his eyes. They were just so enlarged you couldn't even notice anything. There was bruising all over him," he said.

While the case is still under investigation, TPD and ProMedica confirmed that Loeffler is alive and in critical condition.

Ronau is hoping for answers from a moment that's still on his mind.

"Seeing him in that condition was just kind of haunting to me for a little bit," he said. "But knowing that he is still alive still gives me a little bit better of a place of mind."

It is not known at this time if police have any suspects.

If you have any information, you are asked to call or text Crime Stoppers at 419-255-1111.

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