Latimer County Resident Pleads Guilty To Involuntary Manslaughter Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma Date: 1 August 2024 Subjects: American Government , Crime

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that David Lee Holloway, age 40, of Wilburton, Oklahoma, entered a plea of guilty to one count of Involuntary Manslaughter in Indian Country.

The Indictment alleged that on February 16, 2023, Holloway killed the victim while operating a motor vehicle under the influence of any intoxicating substance other than alcohol.

At the plea hearing, Holloway admitted that his actions caused the death of one person and inflicted serious bodily injury to another.

The crime occurred in Latimer County, within the boundaries of the Choctaw Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The charges arose from investigations by the Choctaw Nation Lighthorse Police Department, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Honorable D. Edward Snow, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report. Holloway was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal Service pending sentencing.

Updated October 16, 2024

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