RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt

A 46-year-old man was left crit­i­cal­ly in­jured fol­low­ing a vi­o­lent al­ter­ca­tion at an apart­ment in Mt. Lam­bert, in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 2:46 am when a neigh­bour was awak­ened by the sounds of ar­gu­ing and ob­jects be­ing thrown in a near­by apart­ment at First Av­enue.

The in­for­mant, a res­i­dent in the same build­ing, ap­proached the apart­ment and no­ticed that while the bur­glar proof­ing was locked, the front door was slight­ly open. In­side, he saw a woman, cov­ered in blood, walk­ing through the apart­ment. Af­ter his at­tempts to com­mu­ni­cate with her went unan­swered, he con­tact­ed the po­lice.

Up­on ar­rival, po­lice of­fi­cers found the vic­tim ly­ing on the ground, se­vere­ly beat­en, while the woman con­tin­ued to strike him with a rolling pin. The of­fi­cers in­ter­vened, or­der­ing her to stop, and she even­tu­al­ly com­plied. The sus­pect then threw the key to the bur­glar proof­ing out of the win­dow, al­low­ing the of­fi­cers to en­ter the apart­ment.

Once in­side, they found the sus­pect at­tempt­ing to harm her­self by jump­ing from a stool with a sheet tied around her neck.

First re­spon­ders pro­vid­ed aid to both the vic­tim and sus­pect. The sus­pect was tak­en in­to cus­tody and trans­port­ed for med­ical at­ten­tion.

She claimed the vic­tim of El So­cor­ro had in­fect­ed her with an STD.  How­ev­er, she ap­peared dis­ori­ent­ed, show­ing signs of men­tal health is­sues.

The vic­tim, who sus­tained se­vere head in­juries, was treat­ed by EMTs at the scene be­fore be­ing trans­port­ed to Mt. Hope Hos­pi­tal.

He re­mains un­con­scious and in crit­i­cal, but sta­ble, con­di­tion.