Alex Lovell, 29, of Camas is pictured at an area hospital where he's recovering from injuries suffered March 3, 2018, when his girlfriend, Emily Javier, allegedly attacked him with a samurai sword at their shared home. (Photo courtesy of Alex Lovell) Photo

A Camas woman who tried to slice and stab to death her live-in boyfriend with a samurai sword, because she believed he was unfaithful and spent too much time playing video games, was sentenced Monday morning to 19 years in prison.

Emily Javier, 31, pleaded guilty Jan. 23 in Clark County Superior Court to attempted first-degree domestic violence murder in the March 3, 2018, attack. Javier, who had no prior criminal history, faced a standard sentencing range of 15 to 20 years in prison.

Deputy Prosecutor Anna Klein had asked for 20 years, stating the amount of premeditation that went into the attack was “huge and probably more than the court has ever seen.” She shared new details of Javier’s plan to kill her then-boyfriend, 29-year-old Alex Lovell, whom she had been dating for two years.

“This was an incredibly brutal attack,” Klein said.

Javier told investigators that about a week before the attack, she found evidence Lovell was cheating on her, including the dating app Tinder on his cellphone, scratches on his back and red hair in the shower drain; the hair was not hers, court records say.

According to Klein, Lovell described Javier as an “extremely jealous girlfriend” who would wake him at night to accuse him of being unfaithful if another woman liked his photo on Facebook. Javier was also upset that Lovell wanted to be a professional video gamer, Klein said.