1/21/16 RATON, N.M. (KRQE) – Police say a Raton United States postal worker was beat and left for dead Wednesday morning by a man using a brick as a weapon.

It happened after 10 a.m. in the 600 block of North 2nd Street; that’s just half a mile from the Raton Post Office on Park Avenue.

When police got to the scene, they found 62-year-old David Boyer, a postal worker from Trinidad, Colorado, face down on the ground. Officers say he was bleeding from the head.

“He had a cut to the back of his head, he was bleeding, when he fell face down, he broke his nose,” Raton Police Chief John Garcia said.

Raton postal worker beaten with brick, left for dead