A Shawnee man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after he fired a gun outside a bar in southwest Oklahoma City during a confrontation with a woman he had been arguing with in the car. Mark Richard Elwood Flamand, 45, was sentenced to 60 months behind bars for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, followed by three years of supervised release.
Argument In the Car Spilled Into the Parking Lot
According to KOKH, the woman said she and Flamand had been arguing while she was driving, and she pulled into the bar's parking lot after he began yelling in her face. She told investigators she fled into the business and heard a single gunshot behind her. The confrontation took place on the night of October 17, 2025.
Oklahoma City police officers responded to the bar parking lot in southwest Oklahoma City after reports of a domestic disturbance and possible shooting, the station's report states. A witness told officers they saw Flamand yelling at the woman and fire one round into the ground. Officers later found Flamand asleep in the driver's seat of a vehicle at the scene, per the same account.
Grand Jury Indictment Led to Guilty Plea
A federal grand jury charged Flamand with being a felon in possession of a firearm in January, the article notes. He pleaded guilty to that charge. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the sentencing in a press release, stating that U.S. Attorney Robert J. announced the 60-month prison term for illegal possession of a firearm following a previous felony conviction.
Flamand's case follows a string of similar federal firearm and ammunition prosecutions in the Western District of Oklahoma. Another Shawnee man, Todd Anthony Johnson, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for possessing ammunition as a convicted felon, according to the ATF. In a separate case tied to a domestic violence incident, a Canadian County man was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, as reported by the Department of Justice. More recently, an Oklahoma City man was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release after fleeing from law enforcement with an illegal firearm, according to a separate Justice Department announcement.
Flamand will now serve three years of supervised release once his prison term ends. The full details of how officers tracked down Flamand after the shooting, along with the woman's complete account, were not fully available beyond KOKH's reporting on the case.
