(Oregon City, OR) -- A man who was convicted in a hammer attack on a former girlfriend has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Steven Hir first assaulted the woman in her Wilsonville apartment on February 16th strangling and punching her. She reported it to police. 12 days later, he broke into her apartment again and used a hammer to hit her 30 times in the face, head and body causing devastating injuries. In 2021, Hir was convicted in Clark County, Washington of arson, cyberstalking and disclosing intimate images of another person.