Canton Shooting Claims One Life

The Blaine County Sheriff’s office continues to investigate a shooting in Canton that left a 42-year-old man dead.

According to Undersheriff David Robertson, the dead man is Casey Bierig, believed to have been living in Canton. Robertson said the fatality was the result of an ongoing domestic issue that ended May 18 in the shooting.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is assisting in the case and confirmed the case remains open.

“We hope to close the investigation sometime this week,” Robertson said.

Bierig was no stranger to law enforcement. He has a long string of charges including domestic abuse, felony drug possession and drug trafficking in multiple counties dating back to 1998. He was the 2015 driver of a vehicle transporting Caylee Massey, 18, and Christopher Blake Scruggs, 23, when Massey was shot and killed. At the time Bierig reported Scruggs had shot the woman and fled the vehicle. Scrugg’s remains were found later in a field near where the shooting occurred. His death was ruled a suicide.

Connie Burcham can be reached at Editor@WatongaRepublican.com