1 of 2 A group of people gathered in front of the Pottawatomie County District Attorneys office in Shawnee, asking the district attorney to file criminal charges and release information on Ronald Givenâs death June 6. Kassie McClung / The Frontier Ronald Given On a morning in Shawnee in January 2019, Ronald Gene Given was in a panicked frenzy. A member of the Kiowa Tribe who friends nicknamed âHappy,â Given had walked into a Tractor Supply Co. and told employees someone was trying to kill him. He grabbed a shopping cart and started to ram it into the shopâs windows and pulled clothing off racks.