A South Carolina man who said he hid in his ex-girlfriend's shower, naked from the waist down and holding a knife as a "prank," now faces a lawsuit.
Jackson Collum Arnold, 25, was arrested in May after emerging from the shower holding the knife while hiding his face with a pair of the woman's bicycle shorts, WCBD-2 reported.
Arnold was arrested and charged with assault/battery of a high and aggravated nature, first-degree burglary, and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, ABC-25 reported.
Arnold told police that the incident was a joke meant to "lighten the mood," according to WCBD-2. According to the station, the woman told police that Arnold mimicked slitting her throat with the knife and began choking her.
Arnold now also faces a civil lawsuit filed by the woman, Law&Crime reported.
"The Defendant's conduct and actions were so extreme and outrageous so as to exceed all possible bounds of decency and should be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community," the victim's attorney, Bradley W. Bonville, wrote in a five-page legal complaint according to the website.
"The plaintiff and defendant were involved in romantic relationship that had come to an end," the court documents state according to Law&Crime. "After the plaintiff and defendant 'broke-up,' the defendant became hyper-obsessed with the whereabouts of the plaintiff...The defendant began to stalk the plaintiff at her job as a nanny for young children in Charleston County."
