Charles Pete Ulibarri -- who was 16 when he participated in the murder of an Ogden man in 1991 -- will be released from prison on April 30, 2013, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole announced Wednesday.
By the time he is paroled, Ulibarri will have spent 22 years behind bars for the shooting death of David Dale Young on April 22, 1991.
Ulibarri and co-defendant Joseph Russell Hill, who was Young's stepson, had broken into the victim's home. They were robbing the place when Young arrived home unexpectedly.
Ulibarri said during a parole hearing earlier this month that Hill, then 18, shot the 43-year-old man several times with a .22-caliber rifle belonging to the victim. Ulibarri said he then shot Young once in the abdomen and Hill finished the man with a bullet to the head.
Ulibarri claimed he has changed while in prison, in part because of marriage and divorce to a volunteer teacher he met at prison.
"That's when the light came on," said Ulibarri, who realized he needed to stop fighting and doing drugs in prison if was ever going to have a chance at another relationship.
The parole board included Ulibarri's acceptance of responsibility and his success in prison treatment programs as reasons for giving him a release date.
Hill's next parole hearing is scheduled for May 2011.
