A Jim Thorpe man has been charged with stabbing a woman, after he told police she asked him to do so.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Detective Lee Marzen of the Jim Thorpe Police Department in the case against William Shook:

On Tuesday, the Jim Thorpe Police Department was told that a woman stabbed had been stabbed and was heading to the St. Luke’s Hospital Carbon Campus.

Marzen spoke with Shook, 42, who had come to the hospital with the victim.

Shook said that the woman had stayed at his apartment Monday evening, and left at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Shook said that at around 8 a.m. the woman came knocking on the door and stated she was stabbed, so he got into her vehicle as a passenger and put pressure on her wounds as he drove to the hospital.

Once the woman was discharged, Jim Thorpe Police Chief Joe Schatz and Marzen took her to the Jim Thorpe Police station. The woman told Marzen that she initially had told 911 and Franklin Township Police that she had been stabbed by a man in a blue sporty Honda vehicle.

Marzen asked the woman if this was true, and she said no, and told him she was scared and fearful of retaliation from Shook.

She said that Shook had stabbed her four times. There was also a large cut on her right forearm that she was not sure how that got there.

The woman said that she was inside Shook’s apartment and that while she was getting ready to leave, before being stabbed by Shook, he was pacing back and forth, saying “I can’t do it.”

The woman said Shook’s right hand “came flying at my right thigh and nicked it.”

Then “he did it again and hit my thigh spot on.”

The woman told Marzen that Shook did not stop, and that she was stabbed again.

The woman said that she ran out of the house and Shook followed her. She said he got into her car to go to the hospital.

Jim Thorpe police then picked up Shook at his apartment and brought him to the police station.

Shook said the woman woke up and was playing with a knife, and that she wanted him to stab her, but he said he couldn’t do it.

Shook said the woman said that she couldn’t stab herself either and suggested they stab her together.

Shook told police that he did assist the victim in stabbing herself, and that he was in shock and put pressure on the wounds.

Shook said he assisted in stabbing her twice, and then blacked out after the knife had gone into her leg.

Shook faces charges on three counts of simple assault; two counts of aggravated assault; and one count of possessing instrument of crime with intent.

He is incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $10,000 monetary bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Feb. 15 before District Judge Eric M. Schrantz of Jim Thorpe.