The criminal case against a Bowling Green man accused of killing his daughter is moving forward after a judge scheduled a trial date.

Damian R. Bowden, 51, will stand trial Oct. 1 in Warren Circuit Court on charges of murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and two counts of theft by unlawful taking.

Bowden is accused of causing the death of his daughter, Daquanna Bowden, 30, of Bowling Green, at his residence in Payton Landing Apartments on Scottsville Road.

Law enforcement found Daquanna Bowden’s body in the bathroom on Sept. 9, 2022, and an autopsy revealed that she had received multiple stab wounds.

Damian Bowden appeared Monday before Warren Circuit Judge J.B. Hines, who heard an update on the status of the criminal case.

Bowden had undergone a psychiatric evaluation at the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center, and his attorney, Eric Clark of the Department of Public Advocacy, said he would stipulate to the findings resulting from the evaluation, which would make a competency hearing unnecessary.

Clark then requested a trial date.

“We’ve been extended an offer (to resolve the case with a guilty plea), and (Bowden has) declined that,” Clark said.

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office investigated the death, with deputies returning to the apartment a month after they were called there regarding a domestic dispute between Bowden and his daughter.

That incident, on Aug. 23, 2022, led to Damian Bowden’s arrest for fourth-degree assault and a five-day jail sentence.

Bowden was released from jail on Aug. 27, 2022, and according to prior court testimony, surveillance footage from the apartment complex on that date showed him leaving in his daughter’s 2010 Volkswagen Tiguan SUV.

Damian Bowden’s cellphone pinged to cell towers at Greenwood Lane, Shive Lane and Campbell Lane later that morning, and video footage captured him entering and exiting a Walmart that morning as well, according to prior testimony from WCSO Detective Vedad Hadzikadunic.

From there, the cellphone pinged off towers in Cross Plains, Tennessee, and Nashville on that afternoon.

Daquanna Bowden’s SUV was found unoccupied in Nashville on Sept. 23, 2022, and brought to Bowling Green.

WCSO detectives executing a search warrant for the vehicle found Damian Bowden’s phone, ID, apartment key, medications and wallet, as well as Daquanna Bowden’s ID, Hadzikadunic said while testifying at a preliminary hearing shortly after Damian Bowden’s arrest.

Detectives also seized two knives from the apartment and found Daquanna Bowden’s purse and phone there. A backpack containing about $10,000 was also found in the SUV, the warrant said.

Hines additionally set a pretrial conference in the case for Aug. 5.