TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say two Tampa men got into a fight that escalated into one going for a gun and the other grabbing a machete.
Deputies arrested the man with the gun, 28-year-old Luis Cruz, Sunday evening. He was charged with simple battery and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reports that Cruz and another man got into a fight Sunday afternoon, with Cruz punching the other man several times. The man went outside to a shed where he found the machete, and Cruz went to his room and got a handgun.
When the two met again, authorities say Cruz shot the man in the leg, followed by the man slicing Cruz's left wrist with the machete.
Cruz was being held without bail set.
