POLICE are investigating an argument in Erin in the morning on June 23 after which two people had to be hospitalised.

Police said they responded to a report of a fight at a Carapal Road home where a 20-year-old woman was struck on the head with a hammer.

The 37-year-old homeowner told officers around 7.30 am her cousin from Marshall Trace arrived armed with a cutlass and hammer, after which an argument and fight broke out between her cousin and other family members. During the fight she said her cousin threw the hammer at them, striking the 20-year-old on her head, which began to bleed.

The woman was unable to speak to the police because she was in severe pain. The police then visited the cousin from Marshall Trace, who said it was his relatives and others who had attacked him.

Unlike his cousin's report, he said he got into an argument with the occupants of the house around 7 am. He said during the argument they began to beat him, hitting him on the head with a piece of wood. He told officers he had picked up the hammer, which was in his cousin's yard, and threw it at his attackers to defend himself, hitting the 20-year-old woman.

After that, he said, he went home, but around 7.30 two of his cousins arrived and beat him with a piece of wood and a baseball bat. Emergency medical services took both him and the woman who had been hit with the hammer to the Point Fortin Hospital.

He was transferred to the San Fernando General Hospital and the woman was discharged. Police were unable to meet with the cousins who allegedly followed the man home and beat him.

The post Two wounded in family fight in Erin appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.