Boyfriend of a Navajo woman is sentenced to life in prison in her killing
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose killing highlighted calls to end an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women in North America has been sentenced to life imprisonment. A federal judge on Monday announced the sentence for Tre C. James in the shooting death of Jamie Yazzie after her loved ones detailed their overwhelming grief loss. Yazzie was 32 and the mother of three sons when she went missing in the summer of 2019 from her community on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona. Her remains were found in November 2021 on the neighboring Hopi reservation.
