The Suffolk County police were looking for a man last night who they said had attacked his live-in female companion and her male friend with an ax about 1:30 a.m. yesterday, then fled in the woman’s 1990 Lexus LS400. The man, whom the police identified as Stephen Abbott, 40, had come to the house in Brentwood that he shared with his companion, Darlene Grice, 44, and found her with Carlos Derby, 34, the police said. They said Ms. Grice told them that she had asked Mr. Abbott to leave, and he did so. But he returned a few hours later and attacked her and Mr. Derby with an ax, the police said. Mr. Derby was admitted to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore in critical condition, the police said. Ms. Grice was treated at the hospital and released.
