Stevenson to serve four years for involuntary manslaughter

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced this week that Troy A. Stevenson, 23, of Sallisaw, has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.

The charges arose from investigations by the Sequoyah County Sheriff ’s Office, Cherokee Nation Marshal Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On July 17, 2021, after being assaulted by his estranged father, Stevenson responded with excessive force, shooting and killing him. The crimes occurred in Sequoyah County, within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

On Oct. 13, 2022, Stevenson was reportedly found guilty by a federal jury at trial.

Stevenson 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.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing in Muskogee.

Assistant United States Attorneys Kevin Gross and Derick Blakely represented the United States.