A gun shot rang out early Sunday morning in front of the Indigo District, a popular bar and restaurant in the West University Neighborhood. The bullet grazed the top of a recent University graduate’s head and lodged in a metal window frame on the south side of the building.
Eugene police arrested Mathew James Hangsleben, 25, on charges of attempted first-degree and third-degree assault, reckless endangering, unlawful use of a weapon and criminal mischief.
Julian Pscheid, 24, said he was standing outside the Indigo District at about 2:15 a.m. with University senior Roy Martin, 22, and another friend when a group of men came out of the building fighting.
The fight continued for a few minutes before a gun was pulled and a bullet fired, grazing the top of Pscheid’s head.
“I didn’t think it was a bullet because the windows behind me didn’t break,” Pscheid said. “I thought it was a rock or something.”
Pscheid and Martin ran down the block and called the Eugene Police Department from Martin’s cell phone at 2:22 a.m., according to the phone’s call history.
Police were on the scene within seconds, Martin said.

Pscheid said he did not realize a bullet had grazed his head until talking with police about 30 minutes later and seeing the bullet lodged in the window frame he had been standing in front of.
“A half an inch lower and I would be dead,” Pscheid said.
Paramedics treated Pscheid at the scene and concluded he did not need stitches or any other treatment, he said. Pscheid said he will be pressing charges of attempted assault against Hangsleben, though EPD Lt. Kel Williams said police would pursue the charge regardless of what Pscheid decided to do.
Police say bar employees turned on the lights at about 2:10 a.m. and told patrons the bar was closing and that they needed to leave. Hangsleben reportedly refused to leave, and a bouncer tried to escort him out.
Indigo District owner Justin Gibbs said Hangsleben fought with the bouncer as the two exited the building, and two of the man’s friends appeared to join in once they were outside.
Gibbs and another employee ran outside to try to break up the fight, and “it turned into like a three-on-three,” he said.
Gibbs saw Hangsleben pull out a gun, which police identified as a 9 mm handgun, and Gibbs and the others who were trying to break up the fight attempted to wrestle it away from him when a shot rang out.

“A couple of us were literally right next to the guy when the gun went off,” Gibbs said.
Gibbs said he and his employees pinned Hangsleben to the ground and held the gun until police arrived.
Police concluded after questioning witnesses that the two friends were trying to break up the fight, Williams said.
Jason Ungar, 26, said he was standing outside the bar smoking a cigarette when the incident occurred.
“I know a gunshot when I hear one,” Ungar said. “It’s pretty unmistakable, the sound of a weapon firing.”
Ungar said he was especially troubled by the fact that someone had thought it necessary to go out on a Saturday night with a gun.
“It’s very hard for me to understand people shooting at each other,” Ungar said. “It makes me pretty unhappy for the world.”
Gibbs said fights rarely happen at the Indigo District and that problems with weapons are nonexistent.
“We pride ourselves on having a real mellow and safe atmosphere,” Gibbs said. “We run a tight ship, but you can’t do anything when someone pulls out a gun except hope people don’t get hurt.”
The bar was celebrating its two-year anniversary Saturday night.
Indigo District employees will be meeting this week to discuss the amount of security needed and to decide on a course of action to take to ensure that all patrons feel safe, Gibbs said.

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News Reporter Emily Smith contributed to this report.