A 20-year-old member of the Havasupai Tribe of Arizona was sentenced to life in federal prison for murdering a Japanese tourist who was visiting Grand Canyon National Park.
Randy Redtail Wescogame pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for stabbing Tomomi Hanamure, 34, on the Havasupai Reservation in May 2006. Judge Mary H. Murguia said he disgraced his tribe with his brutal attack.
Interpreters were in the court for Wescogame, who spoke in Havasupai, and for Hanamure's father, Tetsushi, who spoke in Japanese.
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Killer's life sentence does little to comfort slain tourist's kin (The Arizona Republic 6/20)
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