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Police are helping surveillance pictures will help them find the men who beat a Dallas actor. Police say the masked men j And these are. This is a picture and these are pictures of those men before the attack. The actor actually reported the men to security at the store because he believed they were behaving suspiciously. Fox Sports Natalie Solis has more. The suspects began to walk towards him. 33 year old Derek Weitner attacked with a wooden rod till his skull fractured and brain bled Saturday evening outside the target on Haskell Avenue. Police say he's first approached as he walks through the parking lot on his way inside the store by these two men wearing gorilla face masks. Weitner manages to avoid them and goes inside. Well inside the complainant reports the individuals as suspicious to target personnel and those individuals. The suspects remain near the front entrance. Police say target security alerted an off duty Dallas police officer who works that location regularly and they went together to confront the men outside. The men were asked to leave the property. One is seen appearing to walk away. But as Weitner walked to his car a short time later, the men were there to verbally threaten him, then beat him with a wooden rod. Police say it's possible, but unclear if the suspects witnessed Weitner report them to security or what the motive may have been. While he was verbally attacked, investigators say there's no evidence of a hate crime and nothing was stolen. The production is about a group of middle schoolers at the Firehouse Theater in Farmers Branch where Weitner is the artistic director support when it comes to catching his attackers. We're encouraging the artistic community to share that because the more shares We've chosen to take a portion of ticket sales and put it toward his go fund me. Weitner's theater family and fans. No recovery won't be easy, but they're hopeful and anticipating his return to the stage. They are going to be caught and justice is going to be served and Derek is going to recover Natalie. So lease Fox for news and so it was a customer who reported the assault to an off duty officer. Police are still looking for other witnesses. Detectives won't say or speculate about a motive for that beating, but they say the men were spotted before the incident, pulling door handles, maybe looking for crimes of opportunity.