Ardmore Resident Sentenced For Federal Firearm Charge

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nezjoneil Nikkolo Marris, age 28, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for Use, Carry, Brandish, and Discharge of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Ardmore Police Department.

On May 28, 2025, Marris pleaded guilty to the charge. According to investigators, on March 26, 2022, Marris shot another person with a firearm in a drive-by shooting.  The crime occurred in Carter County, within the boundaries of the Chickasaw Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  Marris will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gregory Dean Burris, T. Cameron McEwen, and Jonathan E. Soverly represented the United States.