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A man from Arizona, convicted of murder, received a life sentence plus an additional 10 years on May 27. This came after he murdered another person just 16 days after his release in 2020, as reported by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Arizona.
The 47-year-old, Clifton Nez Hamalowa, was found guilty of fatally shooting Richard Olds in the head multiple times in front of Olds’ young child on the Gila River Indian Community’s reservation land.
As per the report, Hamalowa, together with his siblings, tried to hide his actions by abandoning the victim’s vehicle and leaving the body in a secluded part of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian reservation, the release detailed.
A farmer drives his tractor to turn the soil as dusk falls over the desert landscape on the Gila River Indian Community on October 3, 2024 in Gila River Indian Community, Arizona. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
According to the sentencing notice, Hamalowa is a career offender who stabbed his mother in 1991 with a butcher knife and stabbed and killed a man in 1999. It was also noted that he stabbed a fellow inmate while serving his first sentence.
Dusk falls over the Casa Blanca water tower and desert landscape on the Gila River Indian Community on October 3, 2024 in Gila River Indian Community, Arizona. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“Hamalowa’s brother, Thomas Leon Hamalowa, pleaded guilty to accessory-after-the-fact to murder and was sentenced to 108 months in prison on October 23, 2023. Hamalowa’s sister, Devonne Beth Hamalowa, pleaded guilty to accesory-after-the-fact to murder and was sentenced to 84 months in prison on April 1, 2024,” the release stated.
