CHATSWORTH, Ga. — A man was stabbed “multiple” times at a convenience store in Chatsworth on Sunday after an argument between the man and another man over a guitar, according to a Murray County Sheriff’s Office case report.

The man arrested and charged with aggravated assault for the stabbing told authorities he was just trying to protect himself after the other man “grabbed him in a headlock and began threatening him and his family.”

Michael Joseph Boudreaux, 34, of 1075 Holly Creek Drive in Chatsworth, was released on a $15,000 bond Monday after stabbing Randall Lester Parker at the Bullpen ABC Convenience Store at 24 New Hope Church Road.

Dalton attorney Steve Williams, who Boudreaux said is his lawyer when he declined to comment when contacted, said he is still learning about the case.

“I have talked to Mr. Boudreaux and the detectives and it seems the video certainly supports an allegation of self-defense, but I have not seen the video,” Williams said. “He has talked to me and I have talked to the detectives. We are still in the early part of this.”

Attempts to contact Parker were unsuccessful.

In the case report, a deputy wrote that officers were told the confrontation started over a guitar, which Parker claimed had been stolen and which Boudreaux said he bought from a third party. Boudreaux said he didn’t know the guitar had been stolen. Boudreaux said Parker had confronted him before about the guitar and the two had “worked out a deal” which involved Parker “pay(ing) back the loss he made when he initially bought the guitar …”

According to the surveillance video from the store, Boudreaux arrived alone. He told investigators Parker came into the store after he arrived and the two began talking in the game room area of the store. Boudreaux said Parker asked a woman to give them some privacy and said Parker then put him in the headlock.

Detective Shannon Ramsey noted in a supplemental report that the video shows Parker putting his arm around Boudreaux and “pulling him up close.”

“After about 10 seconds, Mr. Boudreaux then leaned forward and started waving his arm back and forth into Mr. Parker,” Ramsey wrote. “Mr. Parker then went to the ground and turned loose of Mr. Boudreaux.”

Boudreaux told deputies that when he was in the headlock he “blacked out and grabbed his knife and ‘just started swinging it,’” according to the report. The report said Parker had stab wounds to the left elbow, left rib cage, left jaw, back of the neck, top of the scalp and between the eyes.

Ramsey’s supplemental report said the video showed Boudreaux leaving the game room area and moving through the store “at a casual walking pace,” with Parker following him, and going out to his car.

“Mr. Parker walked outside and stopped at the other side of the gas pumps at which time Mr. Boudreaux exited his vehicle and began to talk and or/argue with Mr. Parker,” Ramsey wrote. “A brief time later, Mr. Boudreaux then got back in his vehicle and left the scene.”

“Mr. Boudreaux had stated that he was scared, but my conclusion was because he did not immediately leave once he went outside and began to argue with Mr. Parker in the parking lot he was not in fear of his life,” Ramsey wrote.

Boudreaux later called Murray County 911 and said he “he needs to speak with an officer … he was at Bull Pen earlier and he had to defend himself.” He was “advised” by Murray 911 to return to the convenience store, where he was arrested.

Officers took a blood-covered CRKT M16-14D knife from Boudreaux. According to the CRKT website, the knife has a blade nearly four inches in length.