A man who said he was sleeping in a vehicle in the parking lot of Santo’s Lounge at 1105 Main St. reported that he was robbed at gunpoint late Saturday night.

According to the report filed by the Tifton police officer who responded, the man said that his friends had left him sleeping in the back seat of a Ford Expedition 10 minutes before a truck pulled up to the area. The man said that two black men and one white man got out of the truck. He said one black man approached the front passenger door of the Expedition and opened it and the other black man reached into the rear passenger door’s window and opened it.

The man said that when the white man got into the Expedition, he punched the victim in the face and put a large semi-automatic weapon to his head and ordered him, in Spanish, to “give me the money and the cell phones right now.” According to the victim, the two black men continued to punch him until he gave them his wallet with money inside and two cell phones. The suspects also stole a black cowboy hat that was inside the Expedition. The man said another black man was waiting and the subjects were last seen traveling south on Poplar Street.

In an unrelated incident, police officers arrived at 313 Elm St. to find a 41-year-old man lying face down on the pavement and bleeding from his head. A large crowd had gathered around the victim and people were trying to wake up the man, the officer wrote. The man was unresponsive.

The officer stated in his report that he dispersed the crowd and checked the man for a pulse. Paramedics arrived and put him on a backboard to carry him to the ambulance.

According to witnesses, the victim was riding a bicycle and flipped over head first, landing on the pavement. The officer talked with the man at the hospital and the man said all he remembered was seeing a bright light. The bicycle he was riding had a bent seat and was carried to the city complex where it was “tagged,” according to the report. The man was treated and released from Tift Regional Hospital on Sunday, a spokesman there said Monday.

To contact senior reporter Angie Thompson, call 382-4321.