BoatBanter.com - So what if she's crazy...

She has just as much right to a gun as anybody, good thing there's
plenty of 'em in circulation.

A SeaTac woman fatally shot by police in Pierce County on Sunday
suffered from severe mental illness, according to her family.

Holly Crahay's unpredictable behavior had her children convinced that
if authorities didn't civilly commit her to mental-health treatment
"she would end up shooting herself or somebody else," said her son,
Trevor Noble Jr.

Crahay fired several shots at police and sheriff's deputies before
they shot back, according to the sheriff's department.

Noble Jr. and two siblings, who are also Crahay's children, live with
their father in White Center. The family has not seen Crahay since
mid-September, when she walked into a Taco Bell where her 17-year-old
daughter worked and demanded the girl's car keys, according to a King
County Sheriff's Office report. The girl told deputies she let her mom
take her Ford Mustang because she knew the woman had a gun.

The 17-year-old girl, her 14-year-old brother, Noble Jr. and their
father all have protection orders forbidding Crahay from coming within
500 feet of their schools, jobs, and home. Crahay was prohibited from
possessing a firearm because of a prior domestic-violence-related
conviction..

On Sept. 12, Noble Jr. received a text message from his mother saying
that she was "going to shoot someone in Tacoma for taking her child
and/or she may just kill herself," according to the sheriff's office
report.

On Sept. 23, Crahay reportedly chased after her 14-year-old son and
threatened to kill him "for raping God," sheriff's deputies said. The
boy, who lives with his two siblings in White Center, told deputies
that he told his mother he loved her, but she said she didn't care.

On Oct. 11, Crahay was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm,
felony harassment, domestic violence and two counts of violation of a
domestic-violence court order, in King County Superior Court. Crahay
was being sought on an arrest warrant and held in lieu of $60,000
bail, according the court filing.

Noble Jr. said that when he obtained a restraining order, he told a
judge his mother desperately needed help. He said she refused to take
mood-stabilizing medications or meet with treatment providers.

"We were trying to get her help then, and they [prosecutors] claimed
she wasn't crazy, the judge released her," Noble Jr. said. "I honestly
warned people multiple times."