Two el­der­ly women were at­tacked dur­ing vi­o­lent home in­va­sions this week—one chopped with a met­al weapon in St Joseph and an­oth­er tied up and robbed in Ch­agua­nas.

In the first in­ci­dent, po­lice said a 72-year-old woman was in­jured af­ter con­fronting a masked in­trud­er at her Far­fan Street, St Joseph home around mid­day on Tues­day. She had just fin­ished hang­ing clothes when she no­ticed mud­dy foot­prints lead­ing in­to her house. In­side, she found the bed­room door open and was met by a man in a mask. She screamed, but the sus­pect chopped her on the head and fin­ger with what she de­scribed as “a met­al ob­ject with two sharp points.” An iPad and PlaySta­tion con­sole were stolen.

Then, around mid­night Thurs­day in Ch­agua­nas, po­lice said a 60-year-old woman was at­tacked af­ter she went out­side to close her front gate. She was am­bushed by three ban­dits—one armed with a knife and an­oth­er with a gun—who forced her back in­to the house and tied her up with elec­tri­cal cords. The rob­bers stole a quan­ti­ty of jew­ellery be­fore flee­ing.