Harmony man facing additional charges in fatal Lawrence County bar shooting
State police filed additional charges against a Harmony man who has been accused of killing a woman and injuring four others when he fired a gun into a Lawrence County bar in September.
On Tuesday, Oct. 29, police added five counts of attempted homicide and recklessly endangering another person to the eight counts of both charges and the homicide charge filed in September against Nathan J. Fink, 40. He is being held in the Lawrence County Corrections Center without bond. His preliminary hearing on the additional charges is scheduled for Nov. 12 before District Judge Jerry Cartwright in Ellwood City.
Fink has been charged for killing a woman and wounding others when he fired a gun at a bar, vehicles, homes and businesses.
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, according to an affidavit.
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 his home on Barkley Road in Perry Township, Lawrence County.
Crystal Wawryznski, 37, of Ellwood City, was shot while she was sitting at the bar and was pronounced dead 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 non-life-threatening gunshot wound; and David Huzenic, 64, of Ellwood City, was shot while he was inside his apartment, police said.