CINCINNATI (WXIX) – A woman convicted of attempted murder, felonious assault, and illegal discharge of a firearm in connection with a New Year’s Day 2025 shooting was sentenced Thursday, according to Warren County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Peeler.
Olivia Clendenin received a prison sentence of 16 to 20 years, Judge Peeler said.
Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said Clendenin’s husband and boyfriend were both attending a party at a home on Dearth Road in Clearcreek Township. According to the prosecutor, Clendenin discovered that both men were aware they were involved with her.
After failing to persuade her husband to leave the party, Clendenin left the scene and later returned with a .40 caliber firearm, firing eight shots, Fornshell said.
The victim—who was neither her husband nor her boyfriend—was sitting on the porch when he was shot in the stomach, nearly losing his life, the prosecutor said.
“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,” Fornshell said.
“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 partners—while instead striking and nearly killing an innocent victim,” he added.
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