Woman gets 33 months for role in August shooting

EPHRATA — A Moses Lake woman was sentenced to 33 months in jail and 18 months of community custody in relation to a shooting on the Larson Air Force Base in August 2018.

One of the victims, a 17-year-old female, said that she and her 23-year-old boyfriend had met Crystal Mabry after learning she was selling a car with good gas mileage. Mabry had come to the victims’ house with some friends the day of the shooting, but eventually she was alone in the house with the two victims.

She allegedly requested a ride back to her home on the base, and the victims obliged. They negotiated to pay her half of the money for the car immediately, and the other half when they got the title, which Mabry claimed was in her grandmother’s name.

When the three arrived on the base, however, Mabry allegedly got out of the car, entered a house, and then exited with three men and another woman. Mabry then shouted at the female victim to get out of the car, according to the victim’s statement, and when she didn’t immediately comply, the other woman with Mabry started attempting to pull the female victim out of the car by her hair. Mabry also allegedly tried to pull the female victim out of the car by her neck before one of the male assailants hit the same victim in the face and also attempted to grab her.

At some point during the altercation, the male victim attempted to drive the car away. In response, Mabry allegedly jumped into the car and tried grabbing the keys or the steering wheel. A gun was fired, breaking a window and piercing the stomach of the male victim. After the gun was fired, the various suspects scattered, including Mabry, according to court documents.

Several days later, Mabry contacted the Grant County Sheriff’s Office and agreed to come in for an interview. She told police that, once she had entered the house on the base, she had rushed to the car after hearing the male victim try to start the car. She told police that she had only been trying to wrest the keys from the driver because she hadn’t been paid in full for the car and believed they were stealing it.

Mabry also told officers that she didn’t know the other suspects or who shot the male victim, and denied assaulting the female victim while reaching for the keys. Crystal was informed that she was under arrest and subsequently booked into the county jail.

The next day, officers learned from the female victim that she had received a Facebook message from Mabry stating “That isn’t the last bullet.” The victim said the message had a self-deletion timer, a function possible through Facebook’s Secret Message system, and that she was unable to document the exchange. However, the victim told police that her mother had also seen the message.