DeRidder, Louisiana

From the Leesville Daily Leader of June 7, 2007

Alleged attacker shot by ex-girlfriend in DeRidder

Members of the DeRidder Police Department responded to a call from a residence on Bilbo Street last week, where Paul Lee Williams had been shot in the leg.

According to the police Williams had been stalking his ex-girlfriend and earlier in the day threatened her outside of a local store.

The ex-girlfriend, whose name was not released, immediately went to the Police Department and filed a report. Because she was afraid for her life members of the police department escorted her home and secured her house.

After the police left she locked all of her windows and doors.

The police described that sometime after dark the victim felt as if she were being watched and walked out onto her porch where she noticed that the skirting around her house had been disturbed. Williams then emerged from beneath her home and ran toward her.

She immediately went back in to her home and retrieved a pistol which she had been carrying for protection.

She allegedly fired at Williams and missed. She went back into her home and picked up the phone to call the police when Williams forced open the back door and entered her house.

She shot at him two other times, hitting him once in the leg as she dialed the number for the police department.

Williams fled the scene and the police found her at the end of her driveway near the road with the gun in one hand and the phone in the other.

After searching the surrounding area the police found Williams in the garage of a nearby house.

Williams was taken to a local hospital where his wounds were treated and then booked into the DeRidder Jail.

He was charged with Simple Burglary of an Inhabited Dwelling, Stalking and other charges.

He also has a criminal record with two other stalking charges.