Jamie Yazzie's late father recorded a victim impact statement that was played in the courtroom before sentencing.

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

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

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.

Boyfriend Tre C. James was sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 domestic abuse and killing of missing Navajo woman Jamie Yazzie.

PHOENIX (AP) — After family members of a slain Navajo woman described their grief in a federal courtroom, the judge on Monday sentenced her boyfriend to life imprisonment for first-degree murder in a case that became emblematic of what officials call an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women.

Jaime Yazzie was 32 and the mother of three sons when she went missing in the summer of 2019 from the Navajo Nation