A Holly Hill man had to seek medical treatment to close a severe laceration to his head after he was assaulted early Tuesday, according to an OCSO incident report.
The man said that at around 1:52 a.m., he and a relative went to a Eutawville residence to talk to an acquaintance. Once at the Walker Drive residence, the relative went inside.
When the man heard the relative yell, he tried to enter the home but found the door locked. The man said he then went around to the back of the home and, as he did, he was struck in the back of the head with a baseball bat. When the man fell, someone began kicking him, he said.
The man then went to a hospital to have the laceration closed. The report did not tell what happened to the relative.
Deputies noted in their report the case was still under investigation.
In other reports:
* Deputies responding to a shots fired call early Tuesday and encountered a suspicious vehicle, according to an OCSO incident report.
Around 12:12 a.m., deputies were sent to Red Bank Road where they found eight shotgun shells in the middle of the road.
As they investigated the scene, a vehicle began approaching the patrol cars. When the car came closer, the officers commanded the driver to stop.
The car then drove across a field to go around the officers, driving over some shrubbery before stopping on an embankment. The driver then fled on foot.
* Wal-Mart loss and prevention personnel called deputies Sunday about a pair of brazen shoplifters.
The employees said that around 8:30 p.m., a pair of white males were seen taking radios and DVD players out of their boxes, according to an OCSO incident report. The pair then left the automotive section only to return after having retrieved a plastic trash can. The males then placed the $2,100 worth of radios inside the trash can and left.
The employees said the thieves left in a white vehicle.
* Police are looking for a brown Chevrolet pick-up that was hauling scrap metal Monday on Chestnut Street.
At about 5:45 p.m., an Orangeburg man was driving on Chestnut Street near the intersection of Old Riley Road when a piece of scrap metal fell from another motorist’s trailer, according to an ODPS incident report. The man hit the metal, which immediately blew out the man’s two front tires and damaged a rear tire rim.
The man said the trailer was being hauled by an older model brown Chevrolet truck. The trailer did not have a license plate and the trailer blocked the man’s view of the rear of the truck, he said.