Wife fuming over estranged husband and new boyfriend’s budding bromance opens fire
Inset: Olivia Clendenin (Warren County Sheriff's Office). Background: The 5500 block of Dearth Road in Warren County, Ohio, where Olivia Clendenin opened fire on a house where her estranged husband and new boyfriend were hanging out (Google Maps).
An Ohio woman has been convicted of attempted murder and other charges after prosecutors say she opened fire on a house party, hitting a random guest on the porch.
Olivia Clendenin, upset that her estranged husband and his new boyfriend were socializing at the party, fired shots at the home while driving her mother’s 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee, according to Clearcreek Township police. “She drove through the front yard and fired shots toward the house,” a police sergeant told reporters following the January 2024 incident, as reported by the Dayton Daily News.
A Warren County jury found Clendenin guilty last Friday on four counts: two counts of felonious assault, discharging a firearm into a home, and attempted murder, according to WLWT, a local NBC affiliate.
Prosecutors said Clendenin had been attending the New Year’s Eve party but left in anger after seeing her estranged husband and his new boyfriend together. She returned around 5 a.m. and opened fire on the residence.
A 29-year-old man standing on the porch was shot in the abdomen. A grand jury report, cited by the Daily News, stated: “Defendant attempted to cause the death of another by shooting a firearm from a motor vehicle. 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.”
Clendenin crashed the Jeep while fleeing the scene, hitting a guardrail and a utility pole. Police arrested her at the crash site. She pleaded not guilty, was released on bail, and has been under electronic home detention with a no-contact order for witnesses.
A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
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