GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- No charges will be filed in the death of a 42-year-old Mesa County woman who was shot nine times in the driveway of a neighbor who said he fired his gun in self-defense.

Crystal Nash, 42, was shot and killed around 2:20 a.m. on Nov. 1 in the driveway at 3007 Rood Ave.

"In declining to file criminal charges here, I do not intend to condone or endorse anything that happened," District Attorney Pete Hautzinger wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey. "I certainly believe that neighborhood disputes are usually better resolved without firearms being involved."

Hautzinger said his investigation showed Nash was armed with a 9-mm handgun and had a blood-alcohol level of 0.184 percent when she confronted her neighbor, Tom Jarvis, at his home early Nov. 1. Witnesses said she was upset that he may have called police earlier about a party at her home.

When Jarvis answered the pounding on his door, he said he grabbed his .22-caliber pistol and hid it behind his back.

"He asked her if she had a gun, and she told him that she did and that she was going to use it," Hautzinger’s letter said.

Jarvis told her to put her gun down, according to Hautzinger.

"Ms. Nash responded with another obscenity and brought her gun up across her body toward" the neighbor, Hautzinger wrote. The man then shot Nash, emptying all nine rounds in the clip of his handgun.

Jarvis told investigators he thought he was going to die when Nash raised her gun toward him.

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