According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona, a killer from Arizona was sentenced on May 27 to life plus 10 years in prison for killing a second person just 16 days after being freed in 2020.
Clifton Nez Hamalowa, 47, was found guilty of killing Richard Olds on Gila River Indian Community reservation grounds by repeatedly shooting him in the head in front of his small child.
Hamalowa and his siblings “attempted to conceal his crimes by disposing of the victim’s car and dumping his body in a remote area of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian reservation,” the disclosure stated.
Additionally, Hamalowa and his sister were charged with harassing witnesses in order to keep them from coming forward.
Hamalowa was convicted of first-degree murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault causing serious bodily injury, assault causing serious bodily injury, conspiracy to commit assault causing serious bodily injury, and firing a handgun during, in connection with, and in furtherance of a violent crime.
The sentence notice states that Hamalowa is a career criminal who killed a guy in 1999 after stabbing his mother with a butcher knife in 1991. Additionally, it was mentioned that during his first sentence, he stabbed another prisoner.
On October 23, 2023, Thomas Leon Hamalowa, Hamalowa’s brother, entered a guilty plea to accessory-after-the-fact to murder and was given a 108-month jail sentence. On April 1, 2024, Devonne Beth Hamalowa, Hamalowa’s sister, entered a guilty plea to accessory-after-the-fact murder and was given an 84-month jail sentence, according to the press release.
