Wagoner Resident Sentenced To Life For Murder

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announces that George McEntire Smith, age 23, of Wagoner, Oklahoma, was sentenced to two life sentences for murder and using a firearm to commit the murder. The sentences will be served concurrently.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Wagoner Police Department, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Lighthorse Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On August 5, 2022, a federal jury found Smith guilty at trial of one count of First Degree Murder in Indian Country, and one count of Causing the Death of a Person During a Crime of Violence with a Dangerous Weapon.  During the trial, the United States presented evidence that on April 8, 2021, Smith entered the victim’s Wagoner home, then shot the victim once in the back of the head and once in the back of the neck.  EMS responders pronounced the victim dead at the scene.

The crimes occurred in Wagoner County, within the boundaries of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable Timothy D. DeGiusti, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, sitting by assignment, presided over the sentencing hearing in Muskogee, Oklahoma.  Smith will remain in 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 at the sentencing hearing.