Man in country illegally charged with 11 murders in Texas
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DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas man previously arrested in the death of an 81-year-old woman has been charged with killing at least 11 more elderly women whose jewelry and other valuables he stole, authorities said Thursday.
Kim Leach, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County district attorney’s office, said 46-year-old Billy Chemirmir was indicted Tuesday on six more counts of capital murder in the deaths of women ranging in age from 76 to 94.
Chemirmir, a Kenyan citizen who was living in the U.S. illegally, also is charged in nearby Collin County with two counts of attempted capital murder for similar attacks there, according to county court records.
A Collin County grand jury also returned five capital murder indictments against Chemirmir on Tuesday.
Chemirmir has been in custody since March 2018 in the death of the 81-year-old Dallas woman, Lu Thi Harris. Police in Plano were investigating Chemirmir in connection with suspicious death and suspicious person calls at a senior apartment complex in that Dallas suburb and found evidence linking him to Harris’ death in Dallas, authorities said. Plano is in Collin County.
The break in the case came when Chemirmir forced his way into the Plano apartment of a 91-year-old woman that March, telling her to “go to bed. Don’t fight me,” according to an arrest affidavit filed in Collin County. The woman was smothered with a pillow into unconsciousness and robbed. However, paramedics revived her and she told investigators that her attacker had stolen a box containing her jewelry. Police identified Chemirmir from a license plate number and were able to find and tail him days later, when they watched him throw a jewelry box into a trash bin. They traced the box to Harris, according to the affidavit.
Plano police Chief Gregory Rushin said at the time that Chemirmir used his health care experience “to his advantage in targeting and exploiting seniors, some of the most vulnerable people in our community.”
Police said then that investigators were reviewing about 750 unattended deaths of elderly women for possible links.
Chemirmir’s attorney, Phillip Hayes, said Thursday that this week’s charges were a surprise and that he hadn’t had time to review them yet.
“These cases came out of the blue and I don’t have any information on them yet,” he said.
But he noted that Chemirmir “has denied it since Day 1” that he played any role in Harris’ death. “They have circumstantial evidence that puts him in the area but that’s as far as the evidence goes,” Hayes said.
In addition to the murder charges, Chemirmir is being held on a charge of being in the country illegally.
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We ain't got no problems. Illegal Aliens aren't criminals - they're just looking for a good job, house, car and people to kill.
Wasnt it just yesterday someone seeded an article assuring us that illegal immigrants don’t commit crimes?
Yeah, but she won't like this one 'cause it's not from a "Proper" source.
No, multiple people have seeded articles pf reports that immigrants, legal & illegal, commit less crimes than home grown criminals.
If you somehow got the impression that all immigrants are crime free, that would be your misinterpretation of what the reports concluded.
One of those folks was me and the report said that home grown Americans committed far more crimes than immigrants, legal or illegal.
It's funny to me how you think that rebuts anything Trump said.
What are you talking about?
Exactly. If they weren't here, there would be less total crime. Period.
This just shows that spending immigration dollars on a stupid wall is, well, stupid...
And, just think - if a barrier had been up, he probably wouldn't be here. Just stupid, eh?
How? He flew in from Kenya. Trump's wall would not have stopped shit...
"Chemirmir, a Kenyan citizen who was living in the U.S. illegally,. . . In addition to the murder charges, Chemirmir is being held on a charge of being in the country illegally."
You've got information the cops and his attorney don't have?
Notice how that fact gets ignored?
And did you also notice that his is not a FACT - it's a pull-it-out-your-ass remark.
So is implying that he came in over the Southern border due to a lack of barricades.
He came here on a visa which he overstayed and committed 100's of crimes.
Lucky Texas still has a death penalty, huh?
Welcome to the list Kenya.
Confirmed Foreign Nationals Executed Since 1976
NEWSFLASH - Millions fly into the US then just overstay their visas...
Trump's dumb wall is an insult. A great big expensive ineffectual...wall.
So that somehow means we should let whoever wants to cross the Southern border illegally to do so?
What a bizarre, logically indefensible argument.
No one in the reporting business gave information as to him "flying" into the U.S. As a factual note, not all Illegal Aliens are from Central/South America.
Times multiple years it is millions and besides your graph proves My Point.
No it doesn't. It doesn't show anything about the wall, good or bad. It just shows that there is value in being more diligent about who comes into the country and who is here legally. If we could have kept this one guy out - by whatever means - it appears that such an effort would have saved several lives.
Possibly several hundred...
Then spend our money on enforcement instead of a stupid ineffectual wall.
That is part of the enforcement - make it harder to come in, and getting caught after crossing the barrier.
Yet as you've been told time and time and time and time again is that the majority of people overstay their visas so again how will a wall stop that?
First of all, I have never said we shouldn't spend our money on multiple solutions, and neither has Trump. He published a 10-point plan to deal with immigration before he was even president and only one of those points was about the "wall."
Second, where do you get that it is ineffectual? Building the large fence at San Diego reduced illegal crossings in that area by 90%. We already have a thousand miles of various types of physical barrier and the decision to build it was largely bipartisan. And in recent years, multiple leaders in the Border Patrol have called for more and of the border to receive physical barriers and for existing fencing to be improved.
It won't because it's not intended to do that. You don't think we can address two issues at the same time?
That dumbass wall still will not stop anyone coming by planes and boats and it also will not stop any people who legally ask for asylum at any of our borders from legally being admitted, either...
Some people/organizations can actually do more than one thing at a time.
And, Trump and the damn gop prove it screwing everything up all of once...
I do wish you would get current on the overall ISSUES of border security. The concept/intent of barriers is to slow down/reduce/cut back on the amount of Illegal Aliens crossing into the U.S. The present flock of folks crossing our borders are using bogus claims of requesting asylum knowing that the softies in Congress has opened the doors for them to drop in and disappear. You are aware that over 90% of the asylum claimers are fakes, right?
Sorry - not applicable to this discussion.
150 more and he would be caught up to Tim McVey.
Yeah, but McVay did it in one fell swoop.