IOWA CITY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN EARLY MORNING ASSAULT IN WHICH A MAN ACCUSED ANOTHER OF BEING A ZOMBIE, THEN PUNCHED HIM TWICE.

Police said the assault occurred at 1:17 a.m. one Sunday at an Iowa City restaurant south of the University of Iowa campus.

A man was ordering food when he was approached by another man who called him a zombie, then hit him in the eye. When the victim tried to call police on his cell phone, the man punched him again, breaking his nose.

The attacker then ran out a back door.

The victim was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.

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