VISTA — A 19-year-old man tried to kill another partygoer after the two men got into a fight over a broken aquarium, prosecutors said.

Deputy District Attorney Robert Eacret on July 23 argued that Matthew Alan Leidle’s actions in a June incident warranted an attempted murder charge. Leidle had initially been charged with assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly stabbing Rafael Guadarrama 11 times with a knife.

Following Superior Court Judge Timothy Casserly’s decision to bind over Leidle on the attempted murder charge, he ordered the man back to court Aug. 6 for an arraignment on the new charge. A trial date may be set at that time.

The incident occurred in the early evening of June 8 at a house party in the 500 block of Palm Drive in Vista after Guadarrama accidentally broke an aquarium that was laying in the yard, witnesses testified.

Guadarrama testified the fight was only between him and Leidle, and that he never saw a knife.

He suffered 11 wounds to the left side of his body and spent eight days in the hospital.

“I felt like all my insides were going to come out,” Guadarrama said.

Leidle told authorities Guadarrama’s girlfriend, who the defendant dated briefly in middle school, instigated the fight by telling the victim Leidle slapped her, Detective Daniel Roos said.

Initially, Leidle, who was interviewed around 4 a.m. June 9, said he didn’t carry any weapons because he’s on probation and said he didn’t remember stabbing anybody, Roos said. Though, he later confessed to the detective he stabbed Guadarrama because he felt threatened.

“He said, ‘That’s f—ked up, what I did to him,’” the detective said.

Roos said Leidle only had minor scratches to his arm and face.

The knife used in the altercation was found a short distance from where the fight occurred, Roos said.

Defense attorney Ann Chhokar argued that the prosecution failed to present any significant medical evidence, such as depth, damage and other specifics of the wounds, by a medical professional at the preliminary hearing to justify the attempted murder charge.

In California, a person can be charged with attempted murder if they act “deliberately and intentionally or recklessly with extreme disregard for human life.”

“Every stab wound equaled an intent to kill,” Casserly said.

Leidle remains in custody in lieu of a $1 million bail.