Man Apparently Hit in the Head, Injured Behind Cartersville Restaurant

A local man sustained a head injury during an apparent fight early Sunday morning behind Knight's 1889 restaurant in downtown Cartersville, but authorities do not believe he was shot.

Police were called about 2 a.m. to the parking lot at 24 W. Main St. to a woman screaming her boyfriend had been shot and found the two sitting by a car, the woman holding up the man by his torso, according to the Cartersville Police Department incident report, above.

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The victim, identified as Mark Alan Eubanks, 33, of Cartersville, was bleeding from the back of the head and ear. Police noted blood splatter behind Eubanks, whose girlfriend first said she found him lying there in a pool of blood. 

Eubanks was conscious and semi-alert, according to police, but appeared to be highly intoxicated.

"I asked Mr. Eubanks what happened and he stated that he was at Hamilton Crossing and asked if I could follow him home," an officer wrote in the report. "Mr. Eubanks was not aware that he had experienced any form of head trauma."

He was transported to Cartersville Medical Center for treatment.

Authorities say Eubank's girlfriend, 19, gave "several different statements," according to the report, but finally said Eubanks had pulled a gun during a fight.

Police found a Smith and Wesson Bodyguard .380, a black, semi-automatic handgun, under the driver's side front tire of the parked, but runnning vehicle about 5 feet from where the two were sitting when police arrived. A small pistol holster was lying on the driver's seat of the car. Police determined the vehicle belongs to the girlfriend.

In several different statements, the girlfriend told police a Hispanic man, an African-American man, and a third man, who is Caucasian, were somehow involved in the incident, which involved an argument across the parking lot.

"(The girlfriend) made very little sense and appeared very nervous upon speaking with me," an officer wrote in the report. "I was unable to get a straight story out of (her) as to what happened. (She) stated that she did not know any of the possible suspects names."

Police say the gun recovered as evidence had not been fired; no empty or live round was in the chamber and the magazine was full.

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