An Albert Lea man who stabbed another man last year during an argument was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday in Freeborn County District Court.

Travis Anthony Larsen, 33, was sentenced after he pleaded guilty in December to second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon. He was given credit for 271 days served.

Court documents state Larsen was charged after law enforcement officers were dispatched early in the morning April 8 to an address on Lynwood Drive. Officers received information that two people were fighting and someone was bleeding from a cut in the neck.

A sergeant performed first aid on the victim, who sustained a severe, deep laceration to the chin area.

Larsen reportedly told the sergeant he thought the victim called him a derogatory word.

The victim denied the claim. After insisting the victim called him the name, Larsen swung the knife, cutting the person’s face.

Court documents state the victim said Larsen shoved him in the chest and went into the kitchen. Larsen confronted him about calling him the derogatory word — which he denied — before cutting him in a quick slashing move.

An approximately foot-long, fully-serrated knife with a black plastic handle with blood on it, used in the attack, was found on a stovetop in the residence.

A second count of second-degree assault was dismissed at sentencing.

In a separate file, Larsen was sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison for a probation violation. In that file, he was given credit for 321 days served.