An Arizona murderer was sentenced to life plus 10 years in prison on May 27 after killing a second person only 16 days after he was released in 2020, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona.

Clifton Nez Hamalowa, 47, was convicted of shooting the victim in the head multiple times, killing Richard Olds in front of his young child on reservation land belonging to the Gila River Indian Community.  

According to the release, 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 release said. 

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.