Darwin Lonestar Marcel Doyal
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 32-year-old homeless man, who had been scheduled to stand trial this week on a first-degree murder charge, instead pleaded guilty last week to a lesser count of first-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a repairman in the neck at a Stillwater trailer park on July 7, 2019, at about 2 am.
Pawnee native Darwin Lonestar Marcel Doyal, whose trial date was delayed due to the pandemic, was sentenced to 20 years in prison followed by five years of probation for killing 23-year-old Jared Lance Roybal, 23, of Tonkawa, following a confrontation.
Doyal, who has a criminal record of aggravated assault and battery, was given a concurrent 10-year prison term by Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler for being a convicted felon in the possession of a 9 mm pistol, court records show.
Before the shooting, Doyal, then 29, had been drinking strong beer and then taking straight shots of vodka with his brother and a friend — followed by their smoking marijuana as the trio traveled to and from the Pawnee pow wow, according to preliminary hearing testimony.
Stanley Doyal testified in the hearing that his brother, Darwin Doyal, was driving a Cadillac CTS model when he arrived with his friend, Trey, who was driving Darwin’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle, at Stanley’s trailer on the afternoon of July 6, 2019 — before the trio left Stillwater about 7 pm to go to the Pawnee pow wow.
After the trio came back from the pow wow abut 11 pm, Darwin Doyal and his girlfriend went for a joyride on the loud motorcycle after midnight for 30 to 45 minutes in the Stillwater trailer park where they had some type of confrontation, his brother testified in the hearing.
Later, all three were in the Cadillac that Darwin Doyal was driving with Stanley Doyal in the passenger seat and Trey in the back seat when “We came around a corner. There’s two cars sitting there. I hear words exchanged. I see the window rolled down. The guy in the van said ‘what’s up b….’ to my brother. My brother shot him.
“I freaked out — what the hell just happened. The van’s pulling off so I think he didn’t get hit. My brother slowed down (by the van). I told him ‘keep going, keep going.’ I was under the assumption he didn’t get hit. He drove off.
“I’d seen him (the victim) before. He worked on the roof of my neighbor. They were doing work at the trailer park,” Stanley Doyal testified — adding “I never knew he (his brother) had one (a gun) on him that day.”
Shortly after the shooting, Stillwater police arrived at the trailer park, the defendant’s brother testified. “On the P.A. they said, ‘Darwin Doyal, step out of the house,"” he testified.
Stillwater Police Sgt. Andrew James Wilson testified that the victim was driven to 6th and Perkins to get help. The victim was transported to the Stillwater Medical Center and then airlifted to the OU Medical Center where he died at 4:08 am on July 7, 2019, an affidavit said.
