Dayton man gets at least 15 years for stabbing woman more than 30 times, hitting her with bat

Dayton police and medics were dispatched around 12:05 a.m. Feb. 10 on reports of a stabbing at an apartment in the 3900 block of Cornell Woods Drive, just off Cornell Drive and North Gettysburg Avenue. Officers arrived to find a woman bleeding from her neck, head and back, with blood throughout the apartment, according to an affidavit filed in Dayton Municipal Court.

Owensby’s attorney sought a 10-year sentence, arguing his client had no prior record, that he turned himself in to police and that he pleaded guilty.

“Though the underlying acts are admittedly gruesome, this level of responsibility taken is rarely seen in such a serious case,” attorney John Pinard wrote in a sentencing memorandum.

Prosecutors argued that Owensby’s guilty plea alone does not mean he has shown remorse for his crimes. He “appears to have acquiesced to the fact that these were not crimes for which he could escape culpability. Beyond that acceptance, there has been no showing of genuine remorse from defendant to this point,” a sentencing memorandum stated.

The prosecution described the apartment as a “bloodbath” from the bedroom into the living room where the attack ended. “There is blood on the walls and pooled on the floor. Defendant beat and stabbed (the victim) with such force that her blood sprayed onto the ceiling of the apartment,” the document reads.

The victim suffered traumatic injuries including lacerations to multiple veins and fractures throughout her body, with several to her facial area that required surgery. She “was stabbed so violently in her head that the tip of the knife broke off and remains in her skull to this day,” according to the document. She was hospitalized for weeks, had several operations and continues to receive follow-up care for her injuries, the memo stated. “(The victim’s) life will never be the same and she will never fully recover from these injuries, both physical and psychological.”