Sand Springs Resident Pleads Guilty To Second Degree Murder

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nicholas Lane Spearman, age 28, of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to an Information of one count of Murder in Indian Country – Second Degree, punishable by up to life in prison.

The Information alleged that on or about April 28, 2022, Spearman intentionally killed the victim with malice aforethought.

The charges arose from an investigation involving the City of Stigler Police Department, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Choctaw Nation Lighthorse Police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The investigation revealed that Spearman shot and killed the victim with a .22 caliber magnum rifle at victim’s residence in Longtown, Oklahoma. The crime occurred in Pittsburg County, within the boundaries of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Reservation and within the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable D. Edward Snow, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the plea hearing, and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report.  The defendant was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service pending sentencing.