Woman Sentenced in Fatal Shooting

Crystal Pence. (Photo: Franklin County Security Center)

(Brookville, IN) – A Brookville woman has been sentenced in the fatal shooting of her brother.

Crystal Pence was ordered on Wednesday by Franklin Circuit Court Judge Clay Kellerman to serve 17 1/2 years in the Indiana Department of Correction, with one year suspended to court-supervised probation.

Pence pled guilty in July to Voluntary Manslaughter in the December 2024 shooting death of her brother Ronald at Riverfront Apartments on Fairfield Avenue in Brookville.

She was originally charged with Murder in addition to the lesser felony count.

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