Dayton Police Arrest Man For Criminal Homicide

Was it from a punch to the head?

Or a medical condition?

Dayton police have worked all day to answer those questions.

What exactly killed 46-year-old Carlos McCuiston.

William Thomas Minton of Evensville has been arrested for criminal homicide.

Police say early Thursday morning, the two men got into an altercation that ended with McCuiston dead.

"There was a drunken brawl. My brother lost his life because of some street punk. So hopefully we get justice by the law or by the street," says Allen Ray Smith.

The news of McCuiston's death disturbs neighbors in his apartment complex off of Memorial Street.

According to family, he was a frail and sickly man. He was drinking heavily they say, when he was struck.

"I ran down there and he said the S.O.B. is dead. When I walked into the house there was blood everywhere," says Smith

"He had a heart condition," adds Brock Dunaway, a family friend. "He only weighed a hundred pounds. He couldn't hurt a fly if he tried too. And to be murdered like that..."

Investigators say McCuiston had an extremely poor health history. He was only 46, yet he had a pace maker and had recently made an extended stay in a hospital.

Chief Chris Sneed is waiting for an autopsy to determine if it was a blow to the head, or something else, that killed McCuiston.