Altercation Escalates Into Assault; Flanders Man Injured: Police

FLANDERS, NY — A Flanders man was injured during an assault by a relative Saturday, police said.

A call came in at about 7:40 p.m. about a 21-year-old who'd been assaulted with a weapon, Southampton Town police said. Police responded to Flanders Road and Wildwood Trail and found the man, who had a puncture wound from a metal object and had sustained blunt force trauma, police said.

The Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to an area hospital for treatment, police said.

Detectives determined that the 911 caller, Francisco Hernandez-Urizar, 24, of Riverhead,

was the person who'd attacked him; he was also related to the man, police said. The two men had gotten into a verbal altercation that escalated, with Hernandez-Urizar then assaulting the younger victim with the weapon, police said.

Hernandez-Urizar was arrested and charged with second-degree assault, a felony, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor, police said. He was held for morning arraignment at Southampton Town Justice Court.