As part of a plea agreement, he will be sentenced to 11 to 16½ years. He also will be designated a violent offender and must pay restitution to the victim. Three counts of felonious assault and a misdemeanor count of domestic violence were dismissed.
However, the prosecution specifically reserved the right to prosecute Owensby for homicide charges should the victim die from injuries related to this incident, according to plea documents.
Dayton police and medics were dispatched around 12:05 a.m. Feb. 10 on reports of a stabbing at the 3900 block of Cornell Woods Drive, just off Cornell and Gettysburg.
Officers arrived to find a woman at the front door bleeding from her neck, with blood throughout the apartment, according to an affidavit filed in Dayton Municipal Court.
A man told police he woke up to his brother, Owensby, beating the woman with a baseball bat.
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
Credit: Montgomery County Jail
He reportedly pulled Owensby off the woman and then found a knife on the floor. Owensby fled out the patio doors.
Hospital staff reported the woman had more than 30 stab wounds on her neck, head and back, as well as defensive wounds on her hands, according to court records. A small piece of the knife was reportedly lodged in her brain. It is not clear whether the attack ended her pregnancy.
When Owensby turned himself in to police three days later, he had cuts to his right hand and palm, according to court documents.
Owensby is held on $1 million bail in the Montgomery County Jail and is awaiting a Sept. 16 sentencing hearing.
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