An­na-Lisa Paul

A To­co man had to be treat­ed at hos­pi­tal on Sat­ur­day af­ter he was stabbed by a rel­a­tive dur­ing an ar­gu­ment.

The 23-year-old vic­tim of Cumana Vil­lage, was home with his girl­friend around 6 am on Sep­tem­ber 17 - when he al­leged­ly got in­to an al­ter­ca­tion with a male rel­a­tive who lives in Matu­ra.

Dur­ing the ar­gu­ment, the Matu­ra res­i­dent pulled out a knife and stabbed the vic­tim in the left side of his chest be­fore run­ning off in­to some bush­es.

The in­jured man was rushed to the To­co Health Cen­tre where he was treat­ed and lat­er trans­ferred to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal where he was ex­am­ined and ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion.

Whilst there, of­fi­cers were in­formed that a sec­ond man had been brought to the hos­pi­tal, suf­fer­ing from a gun­shot wound to the but­tock.

They learned the sus­pect had point­ed a gun at him and sev­er­al oth­er men who had been lim­ing at a house in Cumana, be­fore he en­tered the house and took up a knife.

As the two be­gan fight­ing, one of the men who had been out­side, pulled out the gun and shot him.

He too was tak­en to the To­co Health Cen­ter and then trans­ferred to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal. 

The sec­ond vic­tim was ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion up to yes­ter­day.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to both in­ci­dents.