A Lawrence woman took the witness stand Monday and described being shot in the face by a man she’d met at a nightclub.

Kelley Johnson, who was 23 at the time of the Sept. 18 shooting, told jurors in Douglas County District Court she didn’t remember the details of how it had happened and hadn’t realized she was shot until she went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

“There was a hole in my face,” she said. “I vaguely remember there being a burn, like a really dark circle around the entry.”

Domonic A. Shepherd, 25, of Kansas City, Mo., is charged with attempted second-degree murder for the early-morning shooting, which happened at an apartment in the 700 block of Comet Lane.

Dist. Atty. Charles Branson alleged in opening statements that Shepherd shot Johnson and tried to shoot another woman, Danielle Williams, after he refused to leave Williams’ apartment and the women threatened to call the police. Shepherd had come to the apartment with a friend, but was stranded when the friend left and didn’t come back.

Defense attorney Tom Bartee, however, argued that Williams was the one who had the gun. When she picked it up off her kitchen counter, Bartee said, there was a struggle and the gun went off.

“Domonic did not intend to kill her,” Bartee said. “It’s not his fault she was shot, and it’s not what he wanted to happen.”

Johnson testified she and Williams had been at Abe & Jake’s Landing, 8 E. Sixth St., and Last Call, 729 N.H., earlier in the night and that they had made arrangements to go back to Williams’ apartment with Shepherd and another man.

Johnson testified she had told Shepherd she wasn’t interested in him romantically. When the other man left unexpectedly, Shepherd, who didn’t have a car, wouldn’t leave, the women testified.

Johnson said that after the shooting, she remembered spitting blood, asking for a towel and asking Williams to call 911. She spent eight days in the hospital recovering from the injury.

She turned to show jurors the scar on her right cheek where the bullet entered, and she pointed out an area under her chin where fragments had lodged.

The trial is expected to last until Thursday.