Ohio woman learned husband and boyfriend were at same New Year's Eve party. Then she opened fire.
http://people.com/ohio-woman-attempted-murder-husband-boyfriend-new-years-eve-party-11898752
By Christine Pelisek
People Magazine
February 3, 2026
An Ohio woman who fired multiple rounds at a home during a New Year’s Eve party, seriously injuring one partygoer, was found guilty of attempted murder.
Olivia Clendenin, 29, was also found guilty by a jury of two counts of felonious assault and one count of illegal discharge at or into a habitation, the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office announced in a news release on Tuesday, Feb. 3.
The shooting occurred at a home in the 5500 block of Dearth Road in Clearcreek Township on Jan. 1, 2025, the release states.
A woman convicted of attempted murder was seen smirking in her mugshot after opening fire at a house party that her estranged husband and current partner attended. | Warren County Jail
Prosecutors alleged Clendenin became aware that her estranged husband and boyfriend were at the same party together soon after they both found out "about the relationship each had with Clendenin,” per the release.
Clendenin allegedly attempted to convince her husband to leave the party and when she wasn’t successful, she returned with a .40 caliber handgun, prosecutors said.
She allegedly fired eight shots — hitting a 29-year-old male who was sitting on the porch of the home in the abdomen, according to the release.
Clendenin's husband allegedly informed police that she might be involved in the shooting, WKRC reported.
She did it!
According to the Dayton Daily News, Clendenin was also involved in a car crash after the shooting.
“The victim had simply been invited to a New Year’s Eve party and found himself in the middle of Clendenin’s barrage of gunfire,” said Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell in a statement, per the news release.
“Clendenin may have started 2025 as a free person but will spend the rest of 2026 and at a minimum the decade thereafter incarcerated for attempting to murder at least one of her romantic interests — albeit striking and almost killing an innocent victim," he said.
She has yet to be sentenced, per the Daily News.
After the shooting, Clendenin's boyfriend was reportedly overheard telling her husband, "Well ... thanks for the warning ... looks like I dodged a bullet, there!"
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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