(First InMaricopa) A Maricopa woman with a troubled past has been charged with shooting her boyfriend in the groin inside their Thornberry Lane home in Homestead, then blaming the attack on masked intruders, police said.

Shortly after midnight Thursday, Shantrice Wilkerson, 40, called Maricopa police claiming her ex-boyfriend had shown up for revenge. Officers arrived to find a man bleeding from a gunshot wound to his groin. He was rushed into emergency surgery with life-threatening injuries, according to police records.

Wilkerson told investigators that masked men stormed the house and opened fire on her lover. But detectives quickly flagged her story as inconsistent. Dispatch logs show she hung up on calls multiple times and gave conflicting accounts of her location. Surveillance footage from a neighbor showed only Wilkerson’s white Toyota Sienna leaving the garage around the time of the shooting. No intruders were seen.

Inside the home, officers found blood pooled in the victim’s bedroom, bloody shoeprints matching Wilkerson’s footwear, and spent and live rounds near the victim. Police noted no forced entry to doors or windows.

By the time officers arrived, Wilkerson had fled with her three children. Investigators tracked her cell phone, which was intermittently shut off, before locating her in Scottsdale. She was eventually stopped in Chandler, reportedly intoxicated, and arrested.

Wilkerson was booked into the Pinal County jail on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault causing serious injury. Police said aggravated DUI charges will also be filed in Maricopa County.

The victim, who shared both a home and a child with Wilkerson, was unable to give a statement due to his medical condition. Wilkerson told her family members that he was already dead, according to police.

Thursday’s arrest adds to Wilkerson’s string of legal troubles.

In November, she admitted making a false report of strangulation and burglary during a domestic dispute to get faster police response. She was accused at the time of sending texts threatening to kill her children. She later pleaded guilty to false reporting in exchange for prosecutors dropping a criminal nuisance charge.

Wilkerson has also spoken publicly about her rocky past. In July, InMaricopa profiled her life, including a childhood in foster care, expulsion from college for fighting, work as a Las Vegas Strip stripper and a notorious robbery case with Grtis Ivey, son of late Gangsta’s Paradise rapper Coolio.

She previously told reporters that prison helped her turn her life around and that she had reconnected with longtime partner Eugene Davis, a California homicide convict later extradited from Maricopa. Police records show multiple calls to their Thornberry Lane home before his arrest.

Wilkerson agreed to a detailed interview with InMaricopa last month but didn’t show up at the agreed upon date and time.

She faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on the new aggravated assault charges. The pending aggravated DUI charges carry a mandatory minimum of two years.