Wilburton Resident Sentenced For Involuntary Manslaughter

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that David Lee Holloway, age 40, of Wilburton, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for one count of Involuntary Manslaughter in Indian Country.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On July 11, 2024, Holloway pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, in the early evening of February 16, 2023, Holloway crossed the centerline of US 270 Highway just outside Wilburton, Oklahoma, causing a multi-vehicle collision that killed one person and severely injured another.  A toxicology test conducted on Holloway after the collision revealed methamphetamine, amphetamine, and THC in his system.

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

The Honorable John F. Heil, III, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  Holloway will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.