A Shreveport man who pleaded guilty in Caddo District Court last month to domestic violence must serve 13 years in prison, a judge has ordered.
Barkalski Clark, 42, must serve five years at hard labor for aggravated assault of a dating partner and also must serve eight years at hard labor for battery of a dating partner with serious bodily injury. Judge Donald E. Hathaway Jr. ordered the terms to run consecutively, for a total of 13 years.
On June 13, 2023, Clark physically attacked his long-time dating partner and brandished a knife during the assault. The woman had returned home to gather some personal belongings. Clark came from around the side of the house where he had been hiding. He followed the woman inside the home and began the attack. And earlier, on May 31, 2023, Clark attacked the same woman, striking her multiple times in the face with a closed fist and knocking her to the ground. She suffered a broken nose and bruises all over her body.
Prosecutors, from the DA’s Special Victims Unit, were District Attorneys Britney A. Green and Ron Christopher Stamps. Clark was defended by Evan McMichaels.
The case was docket No. 402876.
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