BY STEVE KEMME
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON -- A Butler County grand jury Friday indicted a Union Township man accused of killing the mother of his 8-year-old son, and a Hamilton man accused of stabbing a friend to death in an alley fight.
Steve Colburn was indicted on an aggravated murder charge in connection with the April 15 shooting death of Diane Donnelly, 33, who also lived in Union Township. The grand jury dropped a domestic violence charge.
Paul D. Myers Jr. was indicted on a murder charge in connection with the April 21 stabbing of 36-year-old Larry Delph.
Police said Mr. Colburn, 37, argued with Ms. Donnelly at a baby sitter's house in Union Township and then followed her to an upstairs room, where he shot her several times. Police arrested him at the house.
About 90 minutes before the 3 a.m. shooting, Ms. Donnelly had filed a complaint with Union Township police saying that Mr. Colburn had threatened her.
Mr. Colburn was transferred on May 1 to the Twin Valley Psychiatric System's Dayton campus, a maximum-security facility, after becoming extremely agitated in the Butler County Jail. There, he had to be restrained by several deputies.
In the other indictment, police were called at 10 p.m. April 21 to a fight in the alley in back of Mr. Myers' house on Webster Street in Hamilton.
Mr. Delph was dead in a pool of blood with a knife wound in his neck. Mr. Myers, 29, said he stabbed Mr. Delph in self-defense, Hamilton Police Detective James Nugent testified at an April preliminary hearing.
Detective Nugent said Mr. Myers told him Mr. Delph threw him against a garage, knocked him to the ground, grabbed him and took a pocket knife from Mr. Myers' pocket,
Mr. Myers is being held without bond at the Butler County Jail.
