Ohkay Owingeh Man Sentenced to 87 Months in Prison for Assault and Federal Firearms Offenses

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Jerry Segura, Jr. was sentenced to 87 months in prison.  Segura, 34, of Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of such crime in Indian Country on May 8, 2023.

According to court documents, on March 13, 2022, Segura, Jr. drunkenly drove with his father to his girlfriend’s mother’s home on the Pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh to, in his words, kill himself in front of her. Instead, Segura, Jr. fired about 10 gunshots from a .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun at his girlfriend’s mother’s home, including about six shots directly at his girlfriend’s pregnant daughter and her young son. Defendant then sped away from the scene with the help of his father. At the time, Segura Jr. was on state-level supervised probation.

Upon his release from prison, Segura Jr. will be subject to five years of supervised release.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs investigated this case. Assistant United States Attorney Zachary Jones is prosecuting the case.

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