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Stephanie Clark Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison For Fatally Shooting Boyfriend

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (WCCO) -- A Maple Grove woman was sentenced to 306 months in prison Monday for murdering her boyfriend, whom she shot several times in 2020 after he allegedly hit her during a fight.

Stephanie Clark was convicted of second-degree murder in October. The Hennepin County Attorney's Office announced her 25-and-a-half year sentence Monday.

According to a criminal complaint, Clark shot her boyfriend on March 5, 2020, in their Maple Grove apartment. She told investigators they got into a fight and he punched her in the stomach and back, then she shot him in the chest and head.

Clark received credit for 124 days already served.

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