Stillwell Resident Sentenced For Voluntary Manslaughter

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kimberly Dawn Ball-Gilbert, a/k/a Kimberly Dawn Gilbert, a/k/a Kimberly Ball, age 43, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 97 months in prison for one count of Voluntary Manslaughter in Indian Country, to be followed by three years of Supervised Release.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Office, the Grant County, Wisconsin Sheriff’s Office, and the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory.

On March 19, 2025, Ball-Gilbert pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on July 17, 2023, Ball-Gilbert joined Mose Adam Smith in beating the victim during a fight that left the victim with blunt force trauma and fatal injuries.  Ball-Gilbert then stole the victim’s truck and fled the state with Smith.  They were apprehended ten days later by law enforcement in Illinois. On April 10, 2025, Smith was found guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter in Indian Country by a federal jury at trial.  Smith was sentenced to 121 months in prison on September 17, 2025.

The crime occurred in Sequoyah County, within the boundaries of the Cherokee 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. Ball-Gilbert 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 Patrick M. Flanigan and Lewis M. Reagan represented the United States.