Bowling Green Police responded to a couple fights downtown and an incident of domestic violence nearby on Saturday (10/5).
The first call came around 2 a.m., for an unconscious male lying on the ground in the 100 block of East Court Street. The man had a large gash on the top of his head, and a large amount of blood on his face, sidewalk and street. He was unresponsive, but breathing.
Bowling Green Fire Division took the man to Wood County Hospital.
Witnesses told police they had observed an altercation between the injured man and two other men, with part of the incident recorded on a phone camera.
From the video, an officer was able to locate the two men at the intersection of North Prospect Street and Leroy Avenue. The men said earlier in the evening they had assisted bar staff in getting the other man to leave a bar after he reportedly tried to start fights with bar patrons.
Later as the men were walking through City Lot 1, they reportedly saw the same man starting another fight, and they separated the parties. Video reportedly showed the man then trying to pick a fight with the two men, with one of the men hitting him in the head and leaving the scene.
Police next responded to an assault around 2:30 a.m. in City Lot 2, after a man allegedly attacked three men, resulting in one victim having a chipped tooth, bruised face and blood on his ear. The victims gave police the suspect’s license plate number.
Later on Saturday, a Bowling Green man was arrested for domestic violence around 11:30 a.m., after a neighbor reportedly recorded him hitting a woman in the 100 block of Liberty Street.
Police arrested Matthew Winslow, 40, and took him to Wood County Jail. The witness told police she saw the assault, and on her phone she reportedly recorded the sound of Winslow smacking the woman’s face, then asking her, “How did that feel?”
