An Albrightsville man has been charged with assaulting another man with a shovel after he assaulted his ex-girlfriend.

The Pennsylvania State Police Fern Ridge barracks detailed the incident against John Shamro in court papers:

At 12:54 a.m. May 12, police were dispatched to a home on Sycamore Circle in Penn Forest Township for the report of a domestic dispute.

The victim said her ex-boyfriend, Shamro, 42, had attacked her and her male friend.

The victim said that when she had arrived home at around 12:30 a.m., she was calling for Shamro at the residence, but he was not answering.

She then searched the house and opened up the closet door in the upstairs spare bedroom and he was standing in the closet with a spade head shovel.

She said that Shamro forced her head into the wall about three times, pushed her onto the ground, and placed his hands around her neck to the point that she could not breathe.

She got away, ran from the spare bedroom into her bedroom, locked the door and then locked herself into the bathroom that was inside of her bedroom.

The victim said that Shamro then kicked her door in and was attempting to get into the bathroom, demanding that she show him what is on her phone.

After calling 911, the victim then called two friends who were in the immediate area.

Shamro swung the shovel and struck one of the men.

The victim fell to the ground with a cut on the right side of his head just above his ear.

The other man began to walk up the driveway. Shamro chased him around the house, still wielding the spade head shovel.

As Shamro came back around to the front of the residence, he hit the first man again with the spade head shovel, and then walked over to the other man’s pickup and swung the shovel at the driver’s side front window, smashing it to pieces.

Shamro dropped the shovel and was standing in the front yard as state police arrived.

Shamro faces charges on two counts each of aggravated assault, simple assault, harassment; and disorderly conduct - engage in fighting; and one count each of strangulation and criminal mischief.

He is currently incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $100,000 monetary bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Wednesday before District Judge Eric M. Schrantz of Jim Thorpe.