WINONA, Minn. – A woman shot a taser at an ex-boyfriend in a struggle as she was loading her kids in her car for school. The woman said she had been aware that the man, Derick DeShawn Carpenter, had been prowling around her house on Laird Street. He approached her at the car, she said. An argument ensued. She said he slammed the door on her, injuring a leg. She then shot a taser at him and hit him in a leg. She called 911. Police found Carpenter back at his place. He told them he was at the woman’s house merely to pick up his wallet. The officer told him that he should have asked for a police stand-by. He agreed. Then he was off to jail again, this being his second violation in two days of a judge’s order to stay away from the woman. Did Carpenter want to press charges for being tased? No, he said.
