What was supposed to be an evening of fun at a car show with her children ended in tragedy for a Princes Town woman when she was chopped to death by a close male relative on October 11 in an attack investigators believe stemmed from a domestic incident.

Laura Sankar, 34, of Post Office Trace, New Grant, Princes Town, was killed in front of her 16-year-old son.

Her son told police that before he took a shower around 5.34 pm, his mother had an argument with the suspect.

The teen said while he was getting dressed in his bedroom, he heard his mother screaming and discovered the suspect chopping her in the bathroom.

The boy tried to stop the man with a stick before running out of the house with his seven-year-old brother and two younger teenage cousins to a neighbour's home for help.

Police were contacted and when they responded around 6.30 pm, the 16-year-old took them to the suspect, who was sitting on the lower portion of the house.

Police said the suspect told them: “I know why I killed she, look the cutlass here.”

He was taken into custody and the cutlass was seized.

Sitting at the home on October 13 where her sister was brutally murdered, Sherryann Sankar was surrounded by relatives as they tried to come to terms with the events that unfolded just hours before.

She said she received word about the incident shortly after it occurred. In disbelief, she called her sister's phone and the suspect answered.

[caption id="attachment_1114356" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Sherry Ann Sankar speaks to the media about the tragic death of her sister, Laura Sankar, who was killed at her home on Post Office Trace, Princes Town, on October 12. - Photo by Jeff K. Mayers[/caption]

"I say: 'Where Laura?' and he say that how she dead (and) that's it there, how he fed up."

Commenting on his words to her, Sherryann said: "If you stressed out, kill yourself. It's you what stressed out and fed up. Not my sister."

She said Sankar had known the male relative for around 18 years and it was not the first time he had attacked her.

She said over the years, the suspect had a colourful history with the family, having even attacked some other relatives. She was unsure if her sister had ever made any reports to police about the suspect.

Despite this, she said she warned Sankar several times about the man.

"But at the end of the day, it's her choice to make."

Not wanting to see other women killed at the hands of a man, Sherryann issued some advice.

"We see men on a rampage because they see woman as a weaker vessel. Always. And instead of men to care for women and love a woman, they seem to be advantageous because they have this egotistic, masculine...superior behaviour.

"I think when you see red flags start to come up, that is a sign to move on before it result to losing your life."

With Sankar's children now being left alone, she said she would take care of them, with the help of other family members.

At the time of the interview, she said the children were at the police station receiving counselling.