One person has been injured and a suspect arrested after an altercation outside a bar in Marion.

Police officers responded to a report of shots fired at the America’s Best Value Inn and Heartland Sports Bar early Thursday morning.

Officers located a man lying in the grass on the southside of the parking lot bleeding from the head with a handgun lying nearby on the ground.

The victim, Steven Sheets of Indiana was transported to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale then on to a hospital in St. Louis

As a result of the investigation, 34 year old David Jennings of Benton was arrested for Aggravated Battery.

Officers learned at some point during the altercation, a weapon was discharged, but no one was struck from the gunfire. 

Jennings was transported to the Williamson County Jail.