Second Suspect Charged in Possible Hate Crime Murder of Iranian American Student
On the eve of statute of limitations, the Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA) is charging a second person in the 2015 stabbing murder of 22-year-old college student Shayan Mazroei at a Laguna Niguel bar.
Elizabeth Anne Thornburg, a 38-year-old Mission Viejo resident, now faces a felony “accessory after the fact” charge for allegedly aiding the crime scene escape of Craig Tanber, her longtime friend and a former Public Enemy Number One Death Squad (PEN1) white supremacist who faces trial in January 2019.
According to an Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) investigation that relied on surveillance camera footage and eyewitnesses, Thornburg got into a pool table argument that eventually included mutual spitting with Mazroei at Patsy’s Irish Pub.
Later, Tanber lured Mazroei outside of the establishment, stabbed the unarmed man in the heart and fled.
Read more: https://www.ocweekly.com/second-suspect-charged-in-possible-hate-crime-murder-of-iranian-american-student/
