In November, LaToya Crabbe was charged with murdering her soon-to-be ex-husband. Ms. Crabb claimed self-defense after her husband threatened to hurt her and her family.
AmmoLand News reported on the case shortly after the commonwealth’s attorney filed murder charges. Ms. Crabbe has served her country with dignity. She is highly educated and is a lieutenant commander in the United States Public Health Service (PHS) where she serves as a pharmacologist helping underserved areas such as Indian Reservations. PHS is one of the branches of the uniform services that do not get the light it deserves. They go into harm’s way as doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. They deploy like every other branch. Ms. Crabbe was no exception to this rule.
Ms. Crabbe married a man named Curtis Crabbe, who has a criminal record of armed robbery and other crimes. Soon after they married, Mr. Crabbe allegedly became abusive. The alleged abuse led Ms. Crabbe to ask for a divorce. After the split up, Ms. Crabbe was afraid her husband would do something to hurt her or her family. To protect herself and her children, she purchased a gun. A gun that just might have saved her life.
Shortly after the breakup, Mr. Crabbe started sending text messages to Ms. Crabbe, threatening to hurt her family and burn down her mother’s home. Ms. Crabbe and her children lived with LaToya’s mother. Mr. Crabbe did not reside at the residence but threatened to show up.
“Stop f—— with me and answer my call or I’m going to go to the house and punch your mother in the face,” Mr. Crabbe texted Ms. Crabbe two days before showing up unannounced. “Toya, I’m not playing around. A will hurt everyone in that house then set it on fire. Answer my mother—— call right now or I’m headed to the crib.”
A few nights later, Mr. Crabbe showed up unannounced at Ms. Crabbe’s mother’s house, where the woman had been staying with her kids. Mr. Crabbe did not have permission to come to the home. The two would get into an argument. Ms. Crabbe claimed that Mr Crabbe became upset. She claimed that she was afraid for her life. Mr. Crabbe became more upset, and Ms. Crabbe claimed she became frantic because she believed that Mr. Crabbe was going to hurt not only her but her family. She drew her gun and shot her husband four times, killing him. Her mother, who was in the house, called the police.
Ms. Crabbe told the police that she killed Mr. Crabbe in self-defense, but Manassas, Virginia Prosecutor D. Burke Walker, had other ideas and charged the woman with second-degree murder. The prosecutor claims that there was no evidence of a struggle. Mr. Walker also says he believes she reloaded her handgun, a claim that the defense vehemently denies. She had a handgun that was 7+1. Police found four rounds still in the magazine, and since Curtis was shot four times, they claimed that she must have reloaded a single round.
Ms. Crabbe was arrested and held without bond through the holidays. She finally received a bond on February 27. She was offered a plea deal but turned it down. The trial was scheduled to start last Monday, but prosecutors dropped the original charges and refiled first-degree murder charges. Because of the superseding indictment, the clock restarts. The trial is now delayed until November.
Ms. Crabbe is free on a $10,000 bond and must wear an ankle monitor. Ms. Crabbe’s mother has set up a GiveSendGo for the woman’s legal defense fund.
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Free this woman men like her terrible so called husband are nasty animals I know i was married to one and lucky to have survived it. They are cruel and heartless that terrible thing she was married to is an example of the careless way the beaten and abused are treated. the system is terrible and needs to be fixed. The lawyer is a terrible person with no idea what he is doing.
The DA had better have some good reasons for furthering this case, and if not then he should be fired for wasting tax payer money and the courts time.
She must live one of the commie blue states!
Its really sad that todays prosecutors are so stupid and bias. They take the payoffs from George Soros to go after the obvious and try to prove the fictious stories they dream up in their heads. In this case, what was he planning to do once he arrived at the defendents home? He had already indicated that he meant harm, was going to physically attack her, her mother and burn the home down. He advanced on her and she was in her right to stop the threat on her, her family, and her property. He is no longer a problem, case closed.
The police must have failed basic arithmetic. Ms. Crabbe had a gun that held 7+1 rounds, 7 in the magazine and 1 in the chamber. That makes 8. Anyone who has had even basic training in preparing to use a handgun for self defense knows that you must keep a round in the chamber. If you don’t, the time it takes to rack in a round, if, in your elevated, fearful state you even remember to rack a round, that time could mean the difference between stopping the threat or becoming a victim statistic. She didn’t have to reload even a single round if she had 4 left. And, if she fired 4 times, she would have had 4 remaining rounds in the gun. The only people who have to “rack a round” are the actors on TV because foolish Hollywierd producers/directors think it really looks cool. No, I suspect there is something far more insidious at play in this case. If Ms. Crabbe was truly in fear for her safety and/or that of her family, which seems to clearly be the case, she may well have been acting appropriately. Is this DA seeking to bring justice to this case or trying desperately to be re-elected? Only a thorough, unbiased investigation will wring out the truth.
Every woman should carry a gun, and know how to use it.
Sounds like self defense in Canada.