GAINESVILLE – The Gainesville Police Department says the man accused of killing another man in Southern Pines Apartments has turned himself in.

That man is 33 year old Eddie McCallum of Gainesville. He lived in Southern Pines, as did the victim.

Police accuse McCallum of striking 31 year old Delquaine Durant during a fight.

They say that fight quickly turned deadly as Durant’s head struck the pavement outside of a doorway in the complex.

When emergency and medical staff arrived, they found Durant there bleeding and barely breathing.

Durant was announced dead upon arrival at the hospital.

Initially, police believed Durant died from a gunshot wound to the head, but the medical examiner has confirmed that Durant's fatal wound was not from a gun, but from a skull fracture believed to have come from his fall on the pavement.