Stilwell Resident Sentenced For Assault With A Dangerous Weapon

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announces that Tassia Ann-Lorene Sellers-Turner, age 32, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 42 months imprisonment for one count of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to do Bodily Harm in Indian Country.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Stilwell Police Department, the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On January 11, 2024, Sellers-Turner pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on September 9, 2023, officers responded to a 911 call of a stabbing at a Stilwell residence.  Officers arrived to discover the victim bleeding from multiple life-threatening stab wounds sustained during an attack.  Sellers-Turner fled the scene on foot but was apprehended and arrested by officers a short distance from the scene of the crime.   The crime occurred in Adair County, within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  Sellers-Turner will remain in 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 Attorney T. Cameron McEwen represented the United States.