Siblings were arguing on Christmas. Then the meat fork came out, police say.

Police arrived at the family’s Red Lion, Penn., home on Christmas Day after the argument had already ended.

But what police found at the residence gave them a good idea of what had happened, they said. There was a victim with two little puncture marks on the left side of her buttocks, the York Daily Record reports. And on the kitchen table police saw the meat fork that had inflicted the wound.

By the time police arrived at the home, though, the victim’s brother — who had stabbed his sister with the meat fork during an argument, according to police — had fled the scene, York Dispatch reports.

Joshua Frederick Webber, 25, was arrested by Pennsylvania State Police later on Christmas Day, and charged with simple assault and harassment, Fox 43 reports.

The argument started earlier that day with Webber shoving his sister to the floor and kicking her, according to police. Then the victim fled upstairs, Fox 43 reports.

When the sister tried to come back downstairs, saying she would call the police on her brother, Webber grabbed the meat fork, started yelling and pursued his sister back up the stairs, police said. That’s when Webber stabbed his sister with the metal fork, according to police, leaving the two wounds, the Dispatch reports.

Police came to the scene after a woman called 911 to report that her son had used a meat fork to strike her daughter, according to the Daily Record.

Webber is being held at York County Prison. His bail was set at $25,000, Fox 43 reports, and his next court appearance will be Jan. 8 for a preliminary hearing.

This story was originally published December 27, 2017 at 6:54 PM with the headline "Siblings were arguing on Christmas. Then the meat fork came out, police say.."