Eufaula Resident Sentenced For Involuntary Manslaughter

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Danny Gene Kirby, age 66, of Eufaula, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for Involuntary Manslaughter in Indian Country.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

On June 28, 2023, a federal jury found Kirby guilty of causing the death of the victim.  According to investigators, on July 23, 2022, Kirby crashed his motorcycle while leaving the Fountainhead Marina Bar in Checotah, Oklahoma.  Kirby’s passenger was thrown from the motorcycle and later died from injuries sustained in the crash.  A blood sample was drawn and tested as part of the investigation and revealed that Kirby had alcohol, marijuana, amphetamine, tramadol, citalopram, trazodone, and oxycodone in his system.  The crime occurred in McIntosh County, within the boundaries of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable John F. Heil, III, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.   Kirby was remanded into the custody of the U.S. Marshal pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

Assistant United States Attorneys Jordan Howanitz and Joshua Satter represented the United States.