A woman at the center of an Easter Sunday shooting petitioned Warren Circuit Family Court for domestic violence protection against the man who was shot and was denied that protection this week.

Kenneth B. Marshall, 34, of Clarksville, Tenn., was taken to the The Medical Center after being shot in the stomach, according to police records. The man accused of shooting him, Timothy Joe Woodard, 26, 1115 N. Lee Drive, is charged with first-degree assault.

Woodard drove his sister, Nastasshia Ashay Massey, to a custody exchange Sunday at the Bowling Green Police Department parking lot so she could pick up her 9-year-old daughter, according to police records and city police spokesman Officer Ronnie Ward. Shortly after that, Marshall was shot and Woodard was in custody.

Marshall told police that no words were exchanged between Woodard and himself, police records show. He said Woodard just opened fire.

But Massey’s domestic violence petition filed Tuesday after the shooting paints a different picture of what happened that day.

“The reason that we had been meeting at the police department was in order to keep any potential altercations from occurring because of problems with Kenneth in the past,” Massey wrote in the petition.

Massey and Marshall got out of the vehicles they were in and met in the parking lot, where Marshall dropped his daughter’s bag, according to the petition.

“This frustrated our daughter because she thought he was doing it to be mean,” Massey wrote. “This led to a disagreement between our daughter and Kenneth in which he appeared to feel disrespected for no reason.”

To pacify her child’s father, Massey told her daughter to apologize, she wrote in the petition. Massey then walked away and told her daughter to get inside Woodard’s truck. Woodard rolled down the window to ask if everything was OK. Massey told him yes. She took her daughter’s hand after Marshall talked to his daughter and while Massey helped her daughter into the truck, Marshall uttered expletives and a racial slur that Woodard didn’t hear, according to Massey’s petition.

Woodard and Marshall drove away from the parking lot. Marshall followed Woodard onto Veterans Memorial Lane and at some point Marshall jumped from his moving car, fell, got back up and ran at Woodard’s vehicle with his daughter screaming “Daddy no,” according to the petition. Marshall reached inside the driver’s side window at Woodard and grabbed at him, Massey said in the petition. Woodard put his truck into park, which caused the doors to unlock.

Woodard’s door “flies open as Kenneth was pulling on the door handle while he was trying to grab my brother through the window,” Massey said in the petition. Massey, her daughter and Marshall’s wife, Latoya, yelled at the men to stop, and Massey stepped back to console her daughter and then heard a popping sound, according to her petition. Woodard got back into his truck and told his sister to call 911. She was so shocked she didn’t move, she wrote in her petition. Woodard called police, Massey said. Marshall ran to his vehicle and left.

Latoya Marshall called police Sunday along with Woodard and three other people, Ward said. 

Woodard has a concealed carry permit, according to his attorney, Alan Simpson of Bowling Green.

Another child, who is 4 years old, was in Marshall’s vehicle along with Latoya Marshall, Ward said.

Massey detailed in her petition numerous allegations of domestic violence between Marshall and her, dating back several years.

In 2005, city police were called to a domestic violence incident in which Massey was listed as the victim and Marshall was listed as the suspect, Ward said. No other details were available on that record. Warren County Regional Jail online records don’t show that Marshall was ever arrested in Warren County on domestic assault charges. In December 2004, he was taken into custody due to police believing he was a danger to himself and others, Ward said.

Massey’s petition was denied because the Family Court Judge David Lanphear found that the allegations did not meet the statutory definition of domestic violence and abuse, according to the petition.

An April 14 court date is set for Woodard, who was released on bond Monday, jail records show.

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