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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Lawrence County, PA) A man from Butler County pleaded guilty on Thursday in Lawrence County Court to fatally shooting a woman from Lawrence County in an Ellwood City bar in 2024. Forty-one-year-old Nathan Fink of Harmony pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, third-degree homicide, and firing into an occupied structure in exchange for several other charges, including attempted homicide and reckless endangerment being dropped in the incident that occurred on September 7th, 2024. According to state police, Fink fired into the Breaker’s Pub on Portersville Road after getting into a fight earlier in the evening inside and during the shooting, police confirmed that 37-year-old Crystal Wawrzynski of Ellwood City was struck and killed by the gunfire. Four others survived the shooting but were injured as a result. A sentencing for Fink has been tentatively scheduled for April 21st, 2026.