Maple Grove Woman Convicted Of Killing Boyfriend In March 2020

MAPLE GROVE, MN — A Maple Grove woman is facing up to 30 years in prison after she was convicted Thursday of killing her boyfriend last year, according to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office.

Stephanie Clark, 31, was found guilty of intentional second-degree murder after a jury deliberated for about four hours Thursday, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said in a news release.

Clark was charged with murder in March 2020 after police found the body of 30-year-old Don’Juan Tymone Butler in her apartment in the 6200 block of Magda Drive in Maple Grove.

She told police that she shot Butler after he punched her during an argument that started earlier that day. Butler was shot multiple times in the back, side and back of his head, according to a criminal complaint.

Clark shot Butler in the chest seven to eight times with a double-barrel revolver then shot him in the head with a second revolver when the first ran out of bullets because she “wanted him to stop talking,” police said in the criminal complaint.

Her 5-year-old son was in the apartment at the time of the shooting, police said.

Clark is due to be sentenced Nov. 18. Hennepin County prosecutors said they will ask for Clark to be sentenced to serve 367 months — or about 30.5 years — in prison, the maximum sentence for an intentional second-degree murder conviction.