PROVIDENCE — Detectives are still trying to sort out what happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in Mount Hope when a parked car was struck by another vehicle and an East Providence man was grazed in the head by a bullet.

Although there are discrepancies in the statements of those involved, the police said they have concluded that Justin T. Potter, 26, of 226 Juniper St., East Providence, was shot in the head as he drove or rode in a rented GMC Yukon sport utility vehicle, that the SUV struck a parked car in the vicinity of 61 Pleasant St., Mount Hope, and that the SUV later smashed into an office building at 747 North Main St.

Potter told the police that he was shot at on Gano Street in Fox Point, but detectives theorize that the shooting occurred in the vicinity of 61 Pleasant. No shell casings were recovered from that area, however.

“We’re still looking to speak further with the victim on this,” Detective Capt. Hugh T. Clements Jr. said yesterday. Officers were dispatched to 61 Pleasant, near McCann Place, for a report of gunshots, and witnesses said they had heard six to eight shots. But the shooter had not been seen. Officers found glass in the street and noticed that a parked car owned by Carol Robinson, 31, of 127 Suffolk St., Wanskuck, had been damaged by another vehicle.

They then learned that a maroon SUV matching Robinson’s description of the second vehicle had pushed in a wall at the offices of Rhode Island Court Reporting on North Main Street, about 3½ blocks from 61 Pleasant. The police had the unattended SUV — a slug was lodged in its tailgate — towed away as evidence.

A call then came from Rhode Island Hospital, where Potter was being treated for a minor gunshot wound.

gsmith@projo.com