'One of us is going to die tonight': Man fired 7 bullets into neighbor's garage door to try to kill his ex-wife

An Indiana antheral volition walk respective decades down bars aft trying to termination his ex-wife during an onslaught involving a neighbor.

Brent Clayburn, 61, was recovered blameworthy successful April of 1 number each of attempted murder and transgression confinement with a deadly limb by a assemblage of his peers successful Bartholomew County.

On Thursday, the suspect was sentenced to 35 years successful situation for the attempted execution number – the justice besides issued a 12-year condemnation for the transgression confinement count. Judge Kelly Benjamin assessed the lesser condemnation to tally concurrently, oregon astatine the aforesaid time.

The underlying incidental occurred connected Sept. 15, 2024, astatine a residence connected Silver Fox Drive successful Columbus – a medium-sized metropolis astir 45 miles owed southbound of Indianapolis.

Officers responded to reports of shots fired and a two-hour standoff ensued – with Clayburn yet taken into custody by a SWAT team.

On the nighttime successful question, Clayburn had gone to his ex-wife's location and rang the doorbell. The woman, recognizing her ex-husband, opened the doorway and fto him in. The unit began immediately.

"As soon arsenic Clayburn came inside, helium punched her and said thing to the effect of, 'One of america is going to dice tonight,'" according to an affidavit obtained by The Republic, the section regular newspaper.

The pistillate escaped into the store and tried to permission done an overhead door. But the suspect grabbed her by the hairsbreadth and tried to propulsion her backmost wrong the house, according to the charging document.

On the mode backmost to the house, the pistillate broke escaped of Clayburn's clutches and ran towards a neighbour who was heading toward the commotion aft proceeding the woman's screams, constabulary said.

The neighbour aboriginal said helium saw the attacker with an "object successful his hand," according to Indianapolis-based Fox affiliate WXIN.

Clayburn had grabbed his limb arsenic his ex-wife fled toward the neighbor.

"As she did, Clayburn fired aggregate shots," the affidavit reads.

The neighbour yelled retired "Hey!" successful an effort to gully the defendant's attraction distant from the pistillate – and truthful the shots came toward some of them, according to instrumentality enforcement. Still, the neighbour and the unfortunate made it safely to the different man's house.

As constabulary arrived, the suspect barricaded himself wrong his ex's house. After a negotiation, Clayburn surrendered to SWAT.

Inside the house, investigators recovered 3 handguns, a collapsible rifle, 2 magazines and a backpack containing respective boxes of ammunition. There were 8 slug casings astatine the country and 7 slug holes successful the neighbor's store door, constabulary said.

The suspect was initially charged with 2 further counts of transgression confinement and a misdemeanor number of home battery; prosecutors dropped those charges successful aboriginal April, tribunal records show.

"This verdict is the effect of the relentless enactment and dedication of our prosecution squad and the Columbus Police Department," pb authoritative Lindsey Holden said. "I americium incredibly arrogant of the mode this lawsuit was investigated and presented successful the courtroom. Most importantly, this condemnation reflects our continued committedness to seeking justness for victims of convulsive transgression and holding offenders accountable. We volition not waver successful that mission."