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Lawrence County man charged with homicide in shooting outside bar

Nathan Fink

A Lawrence County man has been charged with killing a woman and wounding several others after state police said he fired a gun at a bar, vehicles, homes and businesses Saturday.

Nathan J. Fink, 40, of Perry Township, has been charged with one count of criminal homicide and eight counts each of attempted homicide and recklessly endangering another person, and is being held in the Lawrence County Jail without bail.

According to police, Fink got into a fight with patrons at Breakers Pub on Portersville Road in Ellport just before 2 a.m. and left after he was escorted out of the bar, but returned a few minutes later with a gun.

In the parking lot, Fink fired a rifle and handgun at the exterior of the building, and shots struck vehicles and went through the door hitting people inside, police said.

Fink then drove west on Portersville Road and fired a gun at multiple homes and businesses before he fled traveling east, police said.

Police said Fink was identified as the shooter and was taken into custody at 2:15 p.m. at his home on Barkley Road in Perry Township, Lawrence County.

Crystal Wawryznski, 37, of Ellwood City, was pronounced dead from gunshot wounds at the scene and her husband Jonathan, 39, sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, police said.

Joshua Lyons, 41, of Ellwood City, was struck by gunfire and taken to a Pittsburgh hospital with a serious injury; Edward Martin, 35, of Beaver Falls, suffered a nonlife-threatening gunshot wound; and David Huzenic, 64, of Ellwood City, was shot inside his apartment and was in stable condition, police said.

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