MUSKOGEE, Okla. — An Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) inmate was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Tuesday for stabbing and killing another inmate.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kenneth Leon Thomas, Jr., age 35, of Okemah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for second degree murder in Indian Country.
Investigators said on May 31, 2022, Thomas stabbed a fellow inmate three times and killed him during an argument over switching cells at the Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville, which has since been renamed the Allen Gamble Correctional Center.
On April 19 of last year, Thomas pleaded guilty to one count of an information of murder in Indian Country.
The crime occurred in Hughes County, within the boundaries of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced.
Thomas was serving eight years in prison on a state court conviction out of Comanche County four assault and battery on a police officer at the time of the murder.
Thomas will remain in custody of the U.S. Marshal pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility, the announcement said.
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