POLICE are probing an attack on a Penal family that ended in the murder of Brandon Harripersad, 34, and the hospitalisation of his father on the night of March 24.

Sheldon Harripersad, 54, told Newsday he was asleep at his Batchyia Village, Penal, home when he was awakened by his son screaming for help around 11 pm.

Exiting from his bedroom into the garage, he said he was attacked by a man in the darkness and began to fight for his life.