MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kendel Reese Wolfe, age 19, of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to five counts of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to do Bodily Harm in Indian Country, each punishable by up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and two counts of Causing the Death of a Person in the Course of a Violation of Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c), punishable by any term of years up to Life in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
At the plea hearing, Wolfe admitted that on December 31, 2022, he fired an assault rifle into an occupied truck as it exited a business in Idabel. Wolfe’s shooting injured one and killed two of the seven people who were passengers in the truck. The shooting constituted an assault with a dangerous weapon intending to do bodily harm of five of the victims and causing the death of two of the victims while using a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence.
The crimes occurred in McCurtain County, within the boundaries of the Choctaw Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Idabel Police Department, the McCurtain County Sheriff’s Office, the Choctaw Nation Lighthorse Police, and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
The Honorable Jason A. Robertson, Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report.
A U.S. District Court Judge will determine the sentence to be imposed after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Wolfe will remain in the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending sentencing.
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