A 20-year-old woman is being held on a $1 million bond after being charged with fatally stabbing Hereford resident Tyler Kawaa Nahoopii in Tucson on June 7. Just eight weeks earlier, Nahoopii had been released by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) onto community supervision.
Alexandrea St. Clair was booked into the Pima County jail several hours after Tucson police officers found an injured Nahoopii near the intersection of South Park Avenue and East Bilby Road. Nahoopii, 31, died soon after his arrival at Banner University Medical Center.
Tucson PD has stated the stabbing occurred around 12:30 a.m. during an “altercation” between St. Clair, Nahoopii, and an unidentified woman. St. Clair was taken into custody at a different location later that same evening.
No one else has been arrested as of press time, according to a TPD spokesperson. Details as to what prompted the altercation are not yet available in court files.
Public records show Nahoopii was convicted of myriad low level felonies committed between 2010 and 2013, but nothing that garnered more than a two-year prison term. Then in 2017, he was convicted of a November 2016 robbery, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison.
Soon after being released on the robbery sentence, Nahoopii was identified as a suspect in a 2021 felony domestic violence criminal damage incident. He was being arrested Nov. 12, 2021, when Nahoopii broke loose from the officer and escaped.
Nahoopii was eventually booked into the Cochise County jail a few days later. He was sentenced in April 2022 to serve another 1.5 years in prison for the criminal damage and escape.
Credit as given against that term for the 135 days Nahoopii spent in custody awaiting resolution of the 2021 charges. He was released from the Arizona State Prison Complex – Yuma on April 12, 2023, to complete a few weeks of ADC community supervision, what is commonly referred to as parole.