MANHATTAN – Law enforcement authorities in Manhattan are investigating a stabbing.

Police say an aggravated battery that involved an altercation between two students on the Kansas State University campus, resulted in one student being stabbed, according to a media release.

At approximately 2:00 A.M. on Wednesday, two Kansas State University students got into an altercation in their room on the sixth floor of Marlatt Hall.

During the altercation, a Freshman in Microbiology, Christopher Stutler, was injured with a knife.

The Kansas State University Police Department responded to the incident. Stutler was taken to Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan, treated for a wound that was non-life threatening and released.

The suspect, a Freshman in Biology Justin Galichia, was taken into custody and released. He was charged with aggravated battery, according to the university.