AUSTIN (KXAN) — A 22-year-old man is facing charges after police say he stabbed a woman in a bathroom stall early Sunday morning at a South Austin Taco Cabana.

The incident was reported by the Taco Cabana manager Jan. 10 at 3:14 a.m. requesting the help of Austin police after a woman was reportedly stabbed by a male in the restaurant. When the responding officers arrived they found a couple bickering in the parking lot, with the woman holding her bleeding left arm.

As officers attempted to detain the suspect, Michael Lavern Abresch, he continued to yell at his girlfriend that he didn’t do anything wrong. Abresch told police after he was arrested that he began arguing with his girlfriend as they left downtown over a parking spot.

According to Abresch, he ate his food at a separate table from his girlfriend and her friend. While waiting for his food, Abresch states in the affidavit, that he went to the bathroom, and when he returned his girlfriend’s left arm had been cut. Abresch claims he tried to help her, encouraging her to go to the hospital. When asked how his girlfriend was cut, Abresch told police that she carried pepper spray and a knife with her, which probably cut her while she was using the bathroom.

Police noted in the affidavit that Abresch had blood on the front and back of his hands as well as his shirt and shoes.

Questioning his girlfriend revealed a different story. She told police they had been arguing, which was why she decided to have a second to herself in the girl’s bathroom. Following her into the bathroom, Abresch’s girlfriend said in the affidavit that he continued to argue with her before sliding under the stall door. Once inside the stall with her, she told police that he pushed and shoved her before pulling out a knife described as three inches long. She says Abresch stabbed her during the physical altercation leading to extensive blood loss from the wound.

Police observed that the cut on her arm was approximately three inches long, which matched the description of the knife. Abresch was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. This is Abresch’s second arrest for assault with injury from February 2015.