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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of a tribal police officer in a remote corner of the nation’s largest American Indian reservation has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
Kirby Cleveland, 37, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court for gunning down Navajo Nation Officer Houston James Largo on March 11, 2017, ABC News reported.
Largo was shot on a dark road in western New Mexico while responding to a domestic violence call. Cleveland acknowledged that he consumed alcohol that night and shot and killed the tribal officer with a rifle. He told the court he had been attacked by a group of bandits armed with bats days earlier and fired at the officer believing he was another assailant.