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POLK COUNTY, Minn. — A Winger, Minnesota, woman was sentenced Thursday, Jan. 30, to 86 months for stabbing a man outside of a McIntosh bar a little over a year ago.

Jayden Marie Ray, 20, was originally charged with attempted murder, as well as first- and second-degree assault. causing great bodily harm. The two remaining charges were dismissed under a plea agreement.

Law enforcement was dispatched just after midnight Jan. 14, 2024, to Little Bobby's Bar and Grill in McIntosh, Minnesota, according to a probable cause statement filed in the case. A man was lying on the ground in well-below-freezing weather.

He had a laceration on his cheek, as well as blood on his face and hands. There were bloodstains on his clothes and in the snow around him.

When law enforcement spoke with the man at the hospital, he said a woman came out of the bar, screamed at him and stabbed him. He sustained at least 20 wounds, including stab and slice wounds to the face, arm, back and flank area.

Several witnesses told law enforcement that the man had been inside the bar earlier and was locked out after assaulting more than one patron, according to the statement. Another altercation happened outside the bar.

Ray said her mother had been one of the people assaulted inside the bar. She claimed to not know where the knife later used to harm the man was, and said all she did was push him off her mother, the statement said. There was blood on Ray's clothing, though, and her mother said she did have the knife.

The bar owner said he heard Ray and her mother talking about killing the man, but he was unsure what happened outside. He did hear Ray's mother talking to her daughter afterwards, saying she would go to prison and the man could be dead.

Ray continued to deny carrying out the attack or having a knife at all, but a witness said he saw the attack occur and heard Ray talking about doing it beforehand.

Ray was arrested. She was interviewed at the Northwest Regional Corrections Center and eventually admitted to putting a small pocket knife to the man's neck outside the bar, pushing down harder than she intended, then stabbing him three or four times before running and throwing the knife away.

She said she was angry and didn't remember stabbing him any more times than that, but remembered returning to see the man surrounded by a pool of blood.

Neither Ray nor her victim elected to give a statement prior to the sentencing. She has credit for 38 days served. She must serve two-thirds of her sentence, or a little more than 57 months, before she may go on supervised release.