A 22-year-old man was stabbed Friday while he sat in his car on Southampton Road, and a second 22-year-old man, a Benicia resident, was arrested and charged in connection with the incident, Benicia police Lt. Scott C. Przekurat said.

Though the attack happened in the 1100 block of Southampton Road near Benicia Middle School, Przekurat stressed that it did not take place on the school campus.

The stabbing was reported at 12:54 p.m. Friday, and officers arrived to find the victim with a single stab wound to his middle torso, Przekurat said. He said the wound wasn’t life-threatening.

Witnesses to the attack gave officers a description of the assailant, Przekurat said, and said he ran into the parking lot of the Benicia First Baptist Church, 1055 Southampton Road.

He said police searched the area and found a man matching the witnesses’ description.

The man was identified as Chase Wiley, 22, Przekurat said.

He said Wiley admitted to having been involved in an altercation, “and he was positively identified by witnesses as the person who stabbed the victim.”

Police took the suspect into custody and found a folding knife in his possession, Przekurat said.

He said an investigation showed that Wiley and the victim were acquainted and that the assault stemmed from a prior disagreement between the two.

“Wiley approached the victim, who was seated in the driver seat of his car, and stabbed him once through the open driver side window and fled on foot,” Przekurat said.

He said the victim was treated at the scene by Benicia Fire Department paramedics before being taken by ambulance to John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek.

Wiley has been charged with one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon and was booked into Solano County Jail, Fairfield, Przekurat said.

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