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This might just turn her grin upside down.
A dance instructor who couldn’t hide her smile in a mugshot after unleashing gunfire at a gathering, enraged by her husband socializing with a man she was secretly dating, has been handed a prison sentence of at least 16 years.
Olivia Clendenin, 29, received her sentence on Thursday in Warren County, Ohio. Notably absent was any apology to Daniel Johnson, an unsuspecting partygoer who was struck in the abdomen during her reckless drive-by shooting in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2025.
The chaos began when Clendenin rushed to the New Year’s Eve celebration upon learning her husband was conversing with her boyfriend. It was the first time both men discovered her infidelity, as reported by Fox 19.
After unsuccessfully trying to persuade her husband to leave the party, Clendenin departed to retrieve a .40 caliber firearm. She then returned, firing eight shots from her mother’s Jeep as she drove by the scene.
Johnson — who was neither her boyfriend nor her husband — said he was just “sitting on the porch minding my business” when one of the bullets hit him in the abdomen.
“The defendant was attempting to shoot at someone else, and I was the one who ended up being shot. In that moment, my life changed for reasons that have nothing to do with me,” the 29-year-old victim told the sentencing hearing, saying the repercussions “have stayed with me.”
Clendenin was convicted of attempted murder, felonious assault and illegal discharge of a firearm and sentenced to 16 to 20 years in prison.
The trial heard audio of a prison call she had made to her mother, complaining that she was the victim of charges that were “ruining a young girl’s life.”
“She has not shown one bit of remorse or concern for the man she shot instead of the one she wanted to shoot,” one of the victim’s relatives told the hearing.
“Because of one person’s rage nothing is the same, and I don’t think it ever will be.”
That continued at her sentencing, where the shooter adddressed her innocent victim, without directly apologizing.
“I would just like to say that I care deeply about my family, my friends, my business and those who rely on me in this world,” Clendenin told the hearing.
“To Daniel, I am very, very glad that he is well after a difficult time he has been through, andI truly hope that he has a great future and I wish him nothing but the best in his future.”