Lakota John Truman Watson was sentenced this week in Muskogee federal court on charges stemming from a Labor Day 2017 shooting in Henryetta.Watson was charged with shooting Ryan White with a .22 Magnum revolver during an argument late Sept. 4, 2017. White was flown to a Tulsa hospital for treatment of that gunshot.
Law enforcement officers caught up with Watson in a Morris apartment where he was arrested 11 days after the shooting. He was charged as a youthful offender at the time.
Because he was a Native American, the case was heard in federal court and Watson entered a guilty plea in January, 2022.
He was sentenced to serve six months for one count of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm in Indian Country. He also received a 120 month sentence on one count of use, carry, brandish and discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Those sentences will run consecutively.
After the sentencing from John F. Heil, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, Watson was put into the custody of the U.S. Marshal pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve his non-paroleable sentence.
