MARIETTA, Ga. — Marietta Square is usually teeming with business on a weekend and considered a safe place to visit, but early Saturday morning police found a man seriously beaten there and they have no idea who did it.
Channel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes spoke with the victim who we are not identifying because there have been no arrests in the case.
The man says he works in the film industry and recently moved to Marietta from Los Angeles. He decided to visit a bar on the square to meet new people on Friday night and woke up later in the hospital.
“I stepped outside to smoke a cigarette and that’s all I remember,” he told Fernandes. “I don’t know if this is my brain filling in gaps, but I remember hearing someone go ‘Hey’ and that’s it.”
Police say some kind of argument took place inside Johnnie MacCrackins Bar around 1 on Saturday morning and it spilled outside. An hour later, Marietta police found the victim slumped over, unconscious and covered in blood.
No one called for help or reported the attack to police.
“That’s the thing that bothers me, there had to be somebody who saw something. I definitely think there’s more to the story than currently what’s going on and that makes me a little more concerned,” the victim said.
Doctors told the victim he nearly didn’t survive. His brain was swollen and he was in a coma. He’s now blind in one eye.
Marietta police are asking anyone who saw what happened on Saturday morning to call their tip line at 770-794-6990.
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