Several people witnessed a brutal attack at a West Palm Beach apartment complex Thursday night, where a man beat and stabbed another man with a machete until he was dead, police said.

Elias Armando Calderon, 35, of West Palm Beach, was booked into the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Main Detention Center early Friday morning and is facing one count of first-degree murder, West Palm Beach Police said in a news release Friday.

Officers were called shortly after 9:30 p.m. Thursday about a man who was being “hit and stabbed” with a machete at the Saddlebrook Apartments in the 5100 block of Caribbean Boulevard, the release said. The victim, a 68-year-old man who lived in West Palm Beach, was found lying on the ground by the complex’s entrance.

The victim’s name is withheld under Marsy’s Law, a voter-approved constitutional amendment that allows crime victims and their families to shield identifying information from the public. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene, the police department said.

Two people called 911 Thursday night, one who appeared to be witnessing the stabbing as it was happening. In the first call, a man told the operators he saw the suspect wearing a gray shirt and short pants stabbing the second man with a machete.

Asked if anyone was injured, he responded, “Yes ma’am, blood everywhere” and asked for officers to be sent immediately.

The dispatcher connected the phone call with fire rescue, and the man could be heard exclaiming, “Oh my god!”

“Somebody with a machete is cutting somebody up?” the man with fire rescue asked.

“Yes, look at his (inaudible) — Oh! Oh my god,” the caller said. “Oh! Send the police, please!”

The fire rescue crewman asked if he could see where the suspect was cutting the victim, but the caller said he couldn’t.

“No, he’s killing him!” he responded. He repeated several times that the man with the machete was killing the victim. He told the operator he was watching the suspect run away, as police sirens could be heard in the background.

“Somebody’s beating somebody outside, like, he’s really beating him bad with a machete,” a woman who also called 911 said. Multiple officers were already on the way, the dispatcher told her, and asked if the suspect was still attacking the man with the machete.

“Yes, with a machete. Yes,” the woman said. “And my kids just seen it outside their window. Please hurry up.”

When officers arrived and began searching for the suspect, they saw him still holding the machete, Mike Jachles, a police department spokesperson, said. He ran when officers saw him, but they took him into custody while he was still on the apartment complex’s property.

Jachles said Calderon admitted to the killing when he was in the back of an officer’s patrol car.

“This was just a really brutal attack that unfortunately people had to witness,” Jachles said.

The police department did not release additional details Friday.