Peggs Resident Sentenced For Voluntary Manslaughter In Indian Country

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Wanda Kay Friday, age 53, of Peggs, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for Voluntary Manslaughter in Indian Country.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On December 15, 2023, Friday pleaded guilty to one count of Voluntary Manslaughter in Indian Country. According to investigators, on November 25, 2022, Friday and the victim argued.  During the argument, Friday retrieved a 9mm handgun and fatally shot the victim.  The crime occurred in Cherokee County, within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma presided over the hearing in Muskogee. Friday will report to a designated Bureau of Prisons facility on August 23, 2024, to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

Assistant United States Attorney Joshua Satter represented the United States.