She called a friend for a ride. He stabbed her and left her in a parking lot, Tacoma police say

A woman who got in an argument with her boyfriend Sunday in Tacoma later was stabbed by the man she called to pick her up after he said he would make her work as a prostitute, police say.

The man was charged Monday in Pierce County Superior Court with one count of first-degree assault. Court Commissioner Meagan Foley set his bail at $1 million.

According to charging documents:

The woman was downtown Sunday when she and her boyfriend got into an argument. She called around and found a friend who would give her a ride home.

The friend showed up in the back seat of an SUV she’d never seen before, with a driver she’d never met.

When they got onto the freeway both men started making sexual advances toward the woman. She asked them to drop her off and they got off state Route 16 at the Union Avenue exit and went north.

The driver reached into the back seat and ran his hand slowly up her leg. She told him to stop and slapped his hand away.

The men then told the woman how she would be a prostitute for them.

She used her phone to tell her mother to quickly pick her up at one of the stores along Union Avenue because she was about to get hit.

She tried to get out of the SUV, but the doors were locked.

The woman accidentally called her mom a couple minutes later, about 2:15 p.m., and she heard muffled sounds, followed by someone saying, “Ow, no, no, no.”

The woman was able to unlock the door, but as she clambered out, she felt a sharp pain in her neck and back. She turned around and saw the man with a knife in his hand. She fell to the ground and the men sped away.

She had two non-life-threatening stab wounds to her upper back and a cut to her left palm.

Police called the man, who was at St. Joseph Medical Center for treatment of a cut to his finger. He declined to talk to officers and was arrested.

This story was originally published September 24, 2018 at 5:31 PM.