On February 2, 2026, an Ohio jury recently convicted a woman of attempted murder and related charges after opening fire at a New Year’s party where her estranged husband and her new boyfriend were socializing together, injuring an innocent guest in the process.
The conviction stems from a New Year’s Day shooting on January 1, 2025, in Clearcreek Township near Springboro, Ohio, where Olivia Clendenin, 29, fired multiple shots toward a house during an early‑morning party.
Prosecutors said Clendenin became enraged after learning her estranged husband and her boyfriend were both at the party and socializing, despite learning earlier that each man knew about her relationship with the other.
When she was unable to persuade her husband to leave, she left, then returned armed with a .40‑caliber handgun. According to court filings, she drove through the yard and fired eight shots in the direction of the home, striking a man who was standing on the porch and had no involvement in her dispute.
Clendenin was jealous, prosecutors said
Tri-State woman convicted of opening fire at a party after learning both her husband and her boyfriend were there. She hit an innocent man, almost killing him. https://t.co/gpRumRnObP pic.twitter.com/IGMND2br4e
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) February 3, 2026
Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell summed up the case in court, noting that Clendenin’s rage was directed not at provable threats but at a perceived betrayal and a social situation that made her jealous.
The victim, a 29‑year‑old man on the porch, was shot in the abdomen and critically injured, according to police reports. Court records show there were no direct arguments between Clendenin and the man who was shot.
“Defendant caused serious physical harm to the person shot and was under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs at the time of the offense,” the grand jury report said, according to the Dayton Daily News.
Following the shooting, Clendenin crashed her mother’s Jeep Grand Cherokee nearby. Law enforcement later found her at the scene and she was arrested and charged with multiple felonies related to the shooting and gun use.
Clendenin pleaded not guilty as prosecutors at trial sought to emphasize both the reckless nature of her actions and the emotional motive that led to them. A pre-sentence investigation is now underway, and the court will schedule Clendenin’s formal sentencing once that report is complete, likely in the coming weeks or months.
Warren County Prosecutor David 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 interests — albeit striking and almost killing an innocent victim.”
