No arrests were made Tuesday in an early Monday beating in Cabot that left one man dead and another at a local hospital.
Cabot Police Department spokesman Sgt. Keith Graham said that no warrants have been issued in the fatal fight outside a Carol Cove resident's house.
Officers went to the 12 Carol Cove home of Carl Hambrick at about 1:45 a.m. and found Steven McCraw on the patio where he lay unconscious, barely breathing, with severe blood loss from his nose, mouth and ears.
Hambrick, 54, who also had several head injuries, told police that McCraw, an acquaintance, knocked on his door that morning and attacked him when he opened it.
According to police accounts, McCraw, 24, also of Cabot, used one or two "metal type objects" to bash Hambrick in the head.
During the struggle, Hambrick found a baseball bat near the doorway and used it to defend himself, reports said.
Hambrick struck McCraw several times, knocking him down to "his hands and knees" before he stopped swinging.
At that point, police reports said, McCraw threatened to shoot Hambrick and Hambrick, "fearing that [McCraw] had a gun," began striking him with the bat again until he stopped moving."
Hambrick went to a neighbor's house immediately and called 9-1-1.
After paramedics performed CPR on McCraw, they took him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Graham said that detectives gathered the bat, as well as metal objects, and that he wasn't aware of any other weapons involved.
When asked what prompted the fight, Graham said it was too early to tell and the detectives were still putting together statements of the fight.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Graham did not know whether Hambrick had been released from the hospital, but he said the man's injuries were not life-threatening.
Graham said it was too early to tell whether any arrests would be made.
The man's death Monday morning marked the first homicide in Cabot in several years, Graham said.
Metro on 03/19/2014