Moultrie police were searching Tuesday for the suspect in the brutal beating of a woman who has been unresponsive since she was found unconscious Monday morning in a yard on Northside Drive.

Police think they know the identity of the white woman in her 30s who was found after a resident reported the beating. The woman, who had multiple head injuries, was found between a trash can and fence in a yard in the 500 block of Northside Drive.

“She was beaten up bad, bad,” Moultrie Police Department Inv. Dave Underwood said Tuesday afternoon. “It’s about as bad of a beating as I’ve every had anything to do with.”

Underwood said he is “99 percent sure” of the woman’s identity.

“The victim went into the hospital as a Jane Doe,” he said. “She’s still considered a Jane Doe. We’re trying to get in touch with next of kin.”

A resident in the area where the beating took place called police at about 2:30 a.m. Monday. Initial reports said that she had bruises to the eyes, head, nose and mouth.

The woman does not live in the area where the assault took place, Underwood said.

“The man started assaulting her in front of this residence,” he said. “Basically the beating took place in front of the (caller’s) residence. She called 911. EMS got there and the victim was unconscious. No one has been able to talk to her.”

After police found her she was taken to Colquitt Regional Medical Center and later transferred to Archbold Memorial Hospital, where doctors have put her into a drug-induced coma.

Police hope to have a suspect in custody soon in the case.