Tulsan Sentenced After Jury Convicted Him of Shooting Another Man

TULSA, Okla. - A Tulsa man was sentenced after being found guilty by a federal jury in December 2024, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

U.S. District Judge John D. Russell sentenced Bruce Mitchell Cass, 52, for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to do Bodily Harm in Indian Country, Carrying, Using, Brandishing, and Discharging a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence, and being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Cass was ordered to serve 166 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release.

In December 2024, a federal jury heard evidence and testimony about Cass walking into a home wearing a mask and pointing a gun at several people, including a toddler, before he shot the victim once. In July 2024, Tulsa Police Officers were dispatched to a shooting. When officers arrived on the scene, they found the victim, shot once in the abdomen. Medical personnel rendered aid and transported the victim to a local hospital for emergency surgery. Before surgery, the victim identified Cass as the shooter.

Court dockets show that Cass is a felon and previously convicted of violent crimes in state court, including arson, after pouring gasoline on a grocery store clerk and the counter, then igniting it.

Cass is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He will remain in custody pending transfer to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

The FBI, the Tulsa Police Department, and the Muscogee Creek Nation Lighthorse Police Department investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Aaron Jolly and Ammon Brisolara prosecuted the case.