Austin police have arrested a man they say attacked his friend with a machete last week after the pair did meth together, an arrest affidavit says.

Officers responded to 200 Beaver Street in North Austin around 12:36 a.m. Friday and found a man bleeding in the road. The man was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center where a 6-inch laceration across his skull was stapled eight times, the affidavit says.

The man told police that on Thursday night, he called his friend Beau Douglas Prestidge, 39, to hang out, drink beer and smoke crack cocaine, the affidavit says. Prestidge and the man went back to Prestidge's house, which is in the back lot at 200 Beaver Street, the affidavit says.

According to the report, Prestidge told the man he had been up for four days smoking meth. He previously told the man that he "freaks out" on meth, the affidavit says.

The men smoked all the meth they had and left the house to go get more. The man offered to pay for gas for Prestidge's car and Prestidge said the pair could split the meth when they got back home, the affidavit says.

Back at the house, the man was sitting at a table in the living room when Prestidge took a large hit of meth, the document says. Prestidge then turned to the man and screamed at him, accusing him of stealing. Prestidge then grabbed a machete and hit the man in the head, the affidavit says. The man backed up and asked Prestidge to stop.

Prestidge continued to accuse him of stealing and then hit the man in his right shoulder with the spine of the machete, the affidavit says. The man was able to stay standing while blood poured from his head, the affidavit says.

According to the report, Prestidge moved toward the man, who backed up into the hallway of the home and grabbed a large wooden board to defend himself. The man swung the board at Prestidge, but hit a mirror leaning against the wall because blood was clouding his vision, the affidavit says.

After the man swung the board at him, Prestidge slipped in blood and fell, dropping the machete, the affidavit says. The pair began wrestling, and the man was able to throw the machete into the kitchen, according to the affidavit. Prestidge tried to grab the machete and the man ran out of the house, blocking the door with his body to keep Prestidge inside, the affidavit says.

The man then let go of the door and ran into the yard where he grabbed a rake. Prestidge threatened to go get his gun, and then went inside, the affidavit says.

The man realized he left his wallet and phone in the house and ran back to get them. That is when Prestidge appeared to "have snapped out of it" and begged the man not to call police, the affidavit says. The man said police were probably on their way because of all the noise they'd been making.

Prestidge was found hiding behind a tree near the 600 block of Elliot Street by an officer and was arrested. He told police that he is near-sighted and wasn't wearing his glasses during the incident and thought the man was putting drugs and money into his pockets, the affidavit says. He admitted to police that he hit the man with the machete and used its blade on the man's head, the affidavit says.

He said he threw the machete onto his roof because he was scared of being arrested again since he was on a personal recognizance bond in Travis County for cutting a man's throat with a box cutter after a verbal fight in June 2018, the affidavit says.

Public records show Prestidge has previously been convicted of driving while intoxicated, assault and burglary of a vehicle, among other charges.

Prestidge has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and tampering with physical evidence. He is in the Travis County Correctional Complex with a combined bail of $200,000, according to online county records.