A do­mes­tic dis­pute in Cou­va turned dead­ly on Tues­day night, leav­ing a 48-year-old woman dead and a male rel­a­tive in po­lice cus­tody.

Kam­nee Thack­ur­deen of Fire Sta­tion Road died at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Wednes­day evening, af­ter be­ing treat­ed in the In­ten­sive Care Unit for a gun­shot wound to the chest.

Po­lice said ini­tial­ly the 45-year-old sus­pect claimed an in­trud­er had en­tered their home and shot Thack­ur­deen dur­ing a rob­bery. But un­der fur­ther ques­tion­ing, he re­port­ed­ly ad­mit­ted that he and Thack­ur­deen had ar­gued, and dur­ing a strug­gle, a re­volver dis­charged.