Bryan County Resident Sentenced For Assault With Intent To Commit Murder

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jason Edward Lewis, age 48, of Kenefic, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 72 months in prison for one count of Assault with Intent to Commit Murder in Indian Country.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Choctaw Nation Lighthorse Police, and the Bryan County Sheriff's Office.

On February 11, 2025, Lewis pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on July 10, 2024, law enforcement responded to a 911 call of active gunfire at a Kenefic residence.  The caller reported that Lewis had rammed a vehicle through the residence wall and was shooting into the house.  Responders approaching the residence encountered Lewis fleeing the scene with front end damage to his truck and apprehended him after a pursuit.  The crime occurred in Bryan County, within the boundaries of the Choctaw 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.  Lewis 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 T. Cameron McEwen and Jonathan E. Soverly represented the United States.