AUSTIN (KXAN) – One man is dead following a fight early Sunday morning in a North Austin transient camp.

The Austin Police Department says a passerby called 911 around 1:30 a.m. to report a body in the 1000 block of Norwood Park Blvd. near Interstate 35.

Responding officers found a white man in his late 30s with obvious signs of trauma to his body. During their investigation, police learned the victim was involved in an altercation the suspect.

A witness told officers the victim threw the suspects bags off of a bridge and into water as the two got into a scuffle. The suspect put the victim in a headlock, causing the man to fall to the ground.

The witness continued, telling officers that after a few minutes, the victim was on the ground and the others at the transient camp were slapping his face asking him to get up and to “quit faking.”