Four Chopped in Alta Vista Bar Brawl

Alcohol and machetes made for a bloody combination during a bar brawl on Friday evening in Alta Vista Village in the Stann Creek District. Four men were drinking at a bar in the village when an argument started. Police say that it eventually escalated and all four men went at each other with machetes. 25-year-old Cesar Pinto received a chop to the left side of his body; 21-year-old Elmer Pinto received a chop wound to the left side of his body; 24-year-old Ervin Augustine received cut wounds to the right side and middle of his head. The fourth man is 32-year-old Jose Franco Pinto who received chop wounds to the left side of his buttocks, right side of his mouth, and a cut wound to his left upper shoulder. Two of the men are still hospitalized tonight. No one has been charged.