Woman stabbed in Allentown speaks out

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- The woman stabbed in Allentown, Pennsylvania - in an incident involving a domestic dispute and police shooting - is speaking out.

Jacqueline Liebenguth remains hospitalized with a broken collarbone, fractured ribs and a collapsed lung.

She told WFMZ-TV that her former boyfriend, 42-year-old Jerome Nichols, trashed her car and home early Monday morning.

Leibenguth said she had a feeling Nichols had been in her room before she woke up. Soon after realizing the lights had been turned on, she watched Nichols calmly walk toward her with a knife.

"I believe he said, 'Don't make a sound or I'll stab you... He points the knife there shoulder and says take off your clothes," Leibenguth said.

"I said, 'Jerome, why?' Instantly, boom, boom," she said, describing the attack. Instantly, she heard and saw blood erupting from her shoulder, but she immediately thought of her 18-year-old son, who was asleep three doors down.

"I was terrified he was going after my son," Leibenguth said.

The attack came just two weeks after Leibenguth and Nichols broke up, ending a two-year relationship.

"I loved the guy in the beginning," Leibenguth said.

But over time, that passion faded and she saw another side of Nichols. A few months ago, she was shocked to see the man she first described as always smiling go into an intense rage.

"I could see the hate in his eyes," Leibenguth said.

Despite such tantrums, though, she said he never threatened her or laid a hand on her. Though, she said he had a tough time separating from the relationship.

"I didn't think I was in an abusive relationship with Jerome," Leibenguth said.

Though pained both physically and emotionally, Leibenguth said she harbors very little anger, but part of her wishes he was still around so she could have the last word.

"I can't yell at him for what he did to my car and my property," Leibenguth said.

In the midst of his rage, he also trashed her car and her home. After running from police and stabbing a Catasauqua officer, Nichols was shot and killed by officers.

"I'm hurt that it had to go down that way," Leibenguth said. Leibenguth does not have medical insurance and is unable to work through her recovery.

Friends of Liebenguth have started a gofundMe.com page to help her with her medical bills.