A family disagreement over the use of a vehicle ended with one brother in jail last Sunday and another hospitalized with serious abdominal injuries.

Detective Eddie Garcia said he and Detective Chris Bernal were working patrol together at just before midnight Saturday, Sept. 19, when they received a call about a stabbing incident in the 800 block of South Tyler Street.

They arrived to find a man on the ground outside his mother’s mobile home with two knife injuries to his belly.

The victim, Frank Treviño, said he had been stabbed by his younger brother as he stood on the front steps outside his mother’s front door.

The officers interviewed the victim’s 55-year-old mother and learned that she and her older son had been driving around town looking for her vehicle and found it parked in front of her home when they returned.

At the front door of the home Frank Treviño and his 23-year-old brother, Daniel Dominguez Treviño, started to argue. At one point during the confrontation, police say, the younger brother pulled a folding knife, reached around his mother and stabbed and cut the older brother twice.

Garcia said the victim was sent to Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville for treatment of his injuries and he and Bernal later found the knife within 100 feet of the crime scene.

Finding the suspect took a little longer. Officers eventually located him in a nearby mobile home where he was being hidden by a juvenile who had been home alone when the suspect ran to the residence and asked for help.

Garcia said the teen who allowed Treviño to hide in the trailer was later charged with hindering apprehension.

Daniel Treviño was taken to the Bee County Jail early Sunday where he was charged with theft and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

After the initial treatment of his injuries, Garcia said hospital personnel had to take the victim into surgery when they discovered he was still bleeding internally.

The detective said doctors ended up removing the older brother’s gall bladder and repairing a bleeding liver.

Garcia said that with the charge of serious bodily injury added to the initial charge, the suspect will be facing a first degree felony. If he is convicted of the offense he could face up to 99 years or life in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Personnel at the Bee County Jail said bond on the theft charge was set at $200 but no bond had been set on the assault charge as of Tuesday evening.

The police did not release details regarding the theft charge against Daniel Treviño.

The suspect was still in custody.