An Ohio woman who fired multiple rounds into a home during a New Year’s Eve party — seriously injuring a guest — has been convicted of attempted murder.
A jury found Olivia Clendenin, 29, guilty of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault, and one count of illegal discharge at or into a habitation, according to a news release from the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office issued Tuesday, Feb. 3.
The shooting happened at a home in the 5500 block of Dearth Road in Clearcreek Township on Jan. 1, 2025, the release said.
Prosecutors alleged Clendenin learned that her husband and boyfriend were at the same party together shortly after both men discovered “about the relationship each had with Clendenin,” according to the release. Authorities said she tried to persuade her husband to leave, and when that didn’t happen, she returned with a .40-caliber handgun.
Clendenin allegedly fired eight shots, striking a 29-year-old man who was sitting on the porch and hitting him in the abdomen, the release stated.
Clendenin’s husband reportedly told police she might have been involved in the shooting, WKRC reported.
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,” Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said 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 added.
Clendenin has not yet been sentenced, according to the Daily News.
