An Oak Harbor woman is facing a felony charge for allegedly stabbing a roommate in the back with a boxcutter, according to court records.

Prosecutors charged Vivian K. Lingham, 23, in Island County Superior Court Jan. 18 with second-degree assault with a deadly weapon.

The charge was filed as being domestic-violence related.

Oak Harbor police responded to the incident at a Swantown Avenue apartment Jan. 13 and found a man who was stabbed in the back.

Lingham allegedly admitted to stabbing the man in order to stop him from choking another man, according to the police report. She said the two men, her two roommates, started fighting while driving earlier in the day and continued fighting in the apartment.

Lingham told the officers that one of the men started to strangle the other and she stabbed the aggressor to stop him, the police report states. Lingham told the officer that she didn’t know what else to do.

The man who was fighting with the victim, however, said the fight was not serious and they were “only wrestling,” the officer wrote.

The officer noted that Lingham and the victim smelled of “intoxicating substances.”

The stab wound was not serious and missed vital organs, the officer wrote.