Jaime Yazzie's case became emblematic of what officials call an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women​.

The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose killing highlighted calls to end an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Tre C. James was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Jamie Yazzie and for domestic violence against three other women.

Five years after Yazzie went missing — and a year after James was found guilty — Yazzie’s family finally gets closure.

The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose killing became representative of an international movement that seeks to end an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women was due in court Monday afternoon to be sentenced for first-degree murder.

PHOENIX (AP) — The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose killing became representative of an international movement that seeks to end an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women was due in court Monday afternoon to be sentenced for first-degree murder.

Tre C. James was convicted in federal court in Phoenix in the fatal shooting of Jamie Yazzie. The jury at the time also found James guilty of several acts of domestic violence committed against three former dating partners.