A 29-year-old La Brea man is warded in critical condition and has to undergo several emergency surgeries after he was beaten on May 31 while liming at a nearby bar.

A relative, who did not wish to be named, told reporters she got a call around 10 pm saying that he was dead but found out later at the La Brea Police Station that he was critically injured, but was taken to the Point Fortin Hospital before being transferred to the San Fernando General Hospital.

She said information coming to her was that a man he was with hit him on the head with a piece of wood during an altercation and continued hitting him after he fell.