The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma has announced a 19-year-old GorE man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison on one count of voluntary manslaughter in Indian country and an additional seven years for one count of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm.Â
According to a news release by the US attorney's office Gary Lynn Armer Jr, 19, of Gore received the sentence Friday after pleading guilty to the two-count felony information charge.Â
Investigators said the crime occurred March 26, 2022 when Armer rove to a home outside of Gore to confront an individual. When an argument ensued Armer shot and killed the individual and then shot a second person who was sitting in a nearby vehicle. Armer then fled the scene.Â
He was arrested short time later at his home In Gore.
The shootings occurred in Sequoia County which is when the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation reservation as well as the Eastern District of Oklahoma.Â
Armer will remain in custody of the US Marshals pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of prison facility to serve his incarceration according to the news release.
