A woman whose former boyfriend — a white supremacist gang member — stabbed an Iranian American man to death in 2015 following an argument at a Laguna Niguel bar pleaded guilty on Monday, Dec. 9 to being an accessory after the fact. More than nine years after the fatal Labor Day Weekend confrontation between Craig Matthew Tanber and Shayan Mazroei at Patsy’s Irish Pub, Elizabeth Anne Thornburg — Tanber’s then-girlfriend — was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and two years probation in exchange for admitting to the single felony count, court records show. If possible, Thornburg was directed to serve her community service focused on racial sensitivity, according to court records. An argument between Thornburg and Mazroei is suspected to have sparked the fatal fight involving her then-boyfriend, and the accessory charge was based on her allegedly helping him flee from the bar in the aftermath of the killing. (…) Other patrons and the bouncer later testified to seeing an enraged Tanber rant outside the bar, including uttering a series of racial epithets and referring to having a knife, to stabbing someone and to being disrespected by Mazroei. When the bouncer walked away, witnesses said Tanber opened a bar door, motioned to Mazroei and yelled “You!” Surveillance video showed Tanber punching Mazroei in the face as he walked out the bar door. Mazroei appeared to be briefly knocked back, then moved toward Tanber before suddenly stepping back into the bar and collapsing to the ground. Prosecutors allege that Tanber had stabbed Mazroei directly in the heart and then a second time in the back.
via mercurynews: Woman admits to accessory charge for slaying of an Iranian America man by her then-boyfriend – a white supremacist gang member – at a California bar