On April 7, 2020, 47-year-old Ronald Bubba Chandler was one of two people fatally shot during a domestic argument at a residence in Okmulgee. A second person who tried to intervene was then shot multiple times after the shooter’s gun jammed and the assailant retrieved a second firearm. Both victims died at the scene.

The Okmulgee Police Department, the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office, and the FBI worked the investigation and identified 24-year-old Austin Dean McMahan of Okmulgee as the suspect. Because the killings occurred on Muscogee Nation Reservation land and the defendant is a tribal member, the case was brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. McMahan pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and admitted to shooting the victims as described.

If anyone knew Ronald Bubba Chandler or has information about what led up to the April 7, 2020 shooting, please share what is known.