Cleared in slaying, felon still faces judge

FORT SMITH — A woman will go before a judge this morning on a petition to revoke a suspended sentence after she fatally shot a man who attacked her last year.

Sebastian County Prosecuting Attorney Daniel Shue announced last week that Krissy Lenae Noble, 21, was justified in shooting Dylan Stancoff as he attacked her in her apartment Dec. 7 and that he was not going to charge her in Stancoff’s death. But his office filed the petition to revoke Noble’s suspended sentence because she is a convicted felon who was not supposed to have the gun.

Documents released by Shue with the announcement included the petition that said Noble pleaded guilty Feb. 1, 2017, to possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia, both felonies. She was given a five-year suspended sentence, fined $2,500 and ordered to pay $561 in court costs and fees.

The petition said being in possession of a firearm and failing to pay $2,056 of her fines, fees and costs violated the conditions of her suspended sentence.

The warrant was issued Aug. 28. She was arrested and released from the county jail Thursday after posting a $2,500 bond, according to court records.

According to Shue’s news release, police were called to the apartment where Noble and her husband lived Dec. 7. They found Stancoff dead in the apartment from gunshot wounds in the head and chest.

Noble told police Stancoff knocked on her door while her husband was gone. She pulled out a .40-caliber handgun and set it on a TV stand before answering the door, she said.

Stancoff asked if Noble’s husband was there and identified himself as Cameron White, she told officers.

She said her husband wasn’t home and he left. She called her husband, who said he didn’t know a Cameron White, according to the release.

Stancoff returned later and Noble again called her husband, who told her to call 911, according to the release. She didn’t, the release said, and when she answered the door, Stancoff entered the apartment and attacked her. She picked up the gun and shot him three times, according to the release.

Shue noted in the news release that, in addition to the .40-caliber handgun, there was a 20-gauge shotgun, a .22-caliber pistol and a bolt-action rifle in the apartment.