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Kenya Native Billy Chemirmir Indicted on Capital Murder of an Elderly Woman in Dallas, Texas

Kenya Native Billy Chemirmir Indicted on Capital Murder of an Elderly Woman in Dallas, Texas

A Kenyan man has been indicted by a grand jury in Dallas, Texas with the murder of an 81-year-old woman.

45-year-old Billy Chemirmir was indicted last week on capital murder in connection with the death of Lu Thi Harris in March of this year in Frisco, Texas. The charge sheet states that Chemirmir entered Harris’s home, killed her by smothering her with a pillow then stole her jewelry.

Police were conducting surveillance on Chemirmir on a separate attack and theft from a different elderly woman when they observed him throwing away a jewelry box into a dumpster outside his apartment. When officers retrieved the box they found Harris’ name inscribed on it and decided to do a welfare check on her residence, where they found her dead of apparent suffocation. Police also say they found a set of keys belonging to Harris inside Chemirmir’s vehicle.

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Chemirmir is being investigated for several other attacks on elderly women in the Dallas area. He is being held in the Dallas County Jail on $1 million bond.

RELATED: Kenyan Family Shocked by News that their Son Could Be a Serial Killer in the US

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  1. ImaraJun 20, 2018

    Mheshimiwa Chirmirmir: Siku za mwizi zako arobaini zimefika mapema sana. Jimbo la Texas halionei huruma watu wa tabia kama uliyofanya. Nakuomba uwaombe watu wa familia yako waje kukuaga kwa vile "siku zako arobaini zimefika haraka sana."

  2. GUEST1Jun 21, 2018

    Imara we Wacha zako. Tuje kumuuga kwani sisi Tulimtuma? Ash!!!

  3. NyaluoJun 21, 2018

    It was better if you invited muuaji Raila worshipers/servants led by Raila himself to go to TX to say goodbye to a co-worker,i.e,muuaji mwenzao.Zumbiri uwaone.

  4. GUEST1Jun 22, 2018

    How about MUNGIKI: Walazi na Wanajisi na hata WAUAJI was Madada hai Wakikuyu (tumbo moja)? Tena Wanajisi wa Nyanya hai na Mama WAZEE huko Kiambu, Murang'a, Embu na Central kwingine; hata Nairobi na Rift Valley.

  5. GUEST1Jun 21, 2018

    Imara we Wacha zako. Tuje kumuAga kwani sisi Tulimtuma? Ash!!!

  6. MugikuyuJun 20, 2018

    Kenya exported a serial killer who would otherwise be walking in the streets of Kenya murdering women and girls and bribing his way out of trouble. He needs the hangman now.

  7. GUEST1Jun 21, 2018

    Maybe he came Running and Jumping over the Fence.

  8. Mkenya halisiJun 20, 2018

    @mugikuyu I think kenya didn’t export killer he just joined the country known to b the best In killing innocent women n kids around the world.From Irak,Libya,Afghanistan n currently Syria.One thing I agree with you is hangman!

  9. Karing'aJun 21, 2018

    Wewe Mkenya do you want to tell us Boro is lying when he says his son,Naftali Kinyanjui was shot dead at his Chunga Mali home on Tuesday,19th,2018 night?Do you want to deny that people are not being killed like flies in Kenya?

  10. SokweJun 20, 2018

    Grand jury indictment then trial. Being Texas you are totally doomed.

  11. JanAug 27, 2018

    He’s guilty. I knew him.

  12. EdJul 3, 2019

    Hi Jan - I’m working with some of the victims families. Would you be willing to share your story? I’m interested in how you knew him and what you might be able to tell us. Please reply and I will give you my contact information

  13. Nyina wa RailaJun 20, 2018

    Headed for the notorious Huntsville execution chambers.

  14. KenyaJun 20, 2018

    May be he is one of the serial killers that walked free after killing people in Right Valley during the tribal clashes

  15. AnosJun 20, 2018

    @Kenya. That may be so true. Let's see what the trial reveals.

  16. GUEST1Jun 22, 2018

    Correct. It could have been him Versus MUNGIKI. Then both sides took Assylum in US (feigning to be Victims of the 2007-2008 PEVs).

  17. mwenye ndukaJun 22, 2018

    This nugu Chemirmir, 45 yrs old from Eldama Ravine came to the US in 1998. In the run up to the 1992 & 97 elections, tribal clashes spread to Mogotio & Eldama Ravine, he was 18 yrs old and 23yrs old respectively. Me thinks this guy started killing old folks who were too stubborn or old to flee the clashes in 92 & 97 and just kept on killing after immigrating to the US.

  18. SukariJun 21, 2018

    @Imara, mbona una twist Swahili language? Mheshimiwa?? Ama there is irony I failed to detect?

  19. NyaluoJun 21, 2018

    Ako sawa na jina Mheshimiwa.Many people are dying in Kenya because of corruption by so called waheshimiwa.Many were killed by British Mfalme and Malikia themselves.Others by waheshimiwa wauaji Kenyatta,Moi with muheshimiwa Kibaki authorising muheshimiwa muuaji Raila to kill 1300 Kenyans so they get a chance to loot.Others are being killed by waheshimiwa drug traders.

  20. GUEST1Jun 22, 2018

    Imara seems to Love and even FESPECT everybody; Sinner or Saint.

  21. MaxileyJun 21, 2018

    Those who are saying that CHemirmir will hang are prejudging. This fellow may have serious mental issues that might mitigate his sentence to life. Not that life sentence is a walk in the park when murderous and rapists are eagerly waiting for turns...
    Of course it will depend on what kind of defense he gets. It OJ Simpson had had a public defender, the out come would have been totally different.Big money certainly helps, not only in Kenya.

  22. mwenye ndukaJun 21, 2018

    In Texas? In this political climate of "illegal immigrants are rapists, murderers! Animals..."
    They will hang this guy, then give him the lethal injection and electrocute his ass for good measure just to make sure the 'bad hombre' is dead, dead, dead!

  23. GUEST1Jun 22, 2018

    Lol!!!

  24. ImaraJun 21, 2018

    Mheshimiwa Sukari: Kwa vile mimi namwamini "MWUMBAJI - CREATOR," nimeona ya kwamba kila mtu ni MHESHIMIWA. hata wewe pia ni MHESHIMIWA.

  25. EnforcerJun 21, 2018

    Before executions might take 20 yrs and laws might change.. That name Billy is not a Kenyan name neither Christian sounds very American.American demons @ work . Nobody is astonished because killing others is American culture.

  26. SukariJun 21, 2018

    Imara, hicho cheo cha bandia sitaki...chukua wewe....labda wastahili. Mheshimiwa huyu, mheshimiwa yule...huku usiku ukiwadia ni mwizi wa pesa nane!!

  27. ImaraJun 21, 2018

    Mheshimiwa Sukari, Wewe wajua wazi kuwa yule kiongozi wa kwanza wa nchi ya Tanzania, Ndugu Borito Kambarage Nyerere alitoa neno "Ndugu" kutumika katika nchi ya Tanzania kwa kila raia wa Tanzania.

    Mimi ni mzaliwa wa Kenya. katika nchi yetu tukufu, twatumia neno "Mheshimiwa" kwa watu wachache tu. Mimi binafsi nimeamua ya kwamba, neno hili lastahili kutumiwa kwa kila mzaliwa wa nchi ya Kenya. Kwa hiyo, nitalitumia kwa wazaliwa wote wa Kenya.

  28. ImaraJun 21, 2018

    Mheshimiwa Sukari:

    Kusema kweli, Kutokana na maandishi yako hapa kwenye gazeti la Mwakilishi, yaonekana ya kwamba wastahili na isitoshe, kila mtu duniani astahili kuitwa Mheshimiwa. Tanzania walitumia neno "Ndugu" kwa kila binadamu duniani kote. Kwa vile mimi sitaki kumdharau mtu yeyote duniani, nitajitahidi kutumia neno hilo la "Mheshimiwa."

  29. SukariJun 22, 2018

    Imara, that's the beauty of democracy - choice. Endelea wewe. As for me, I call it as it is, kama mtu astahili title ya "uheshimiwa" then I am proud to furnish them as such. Kama tafash, sitampaka mafuta, ila nitamwita as deserved. Lipi lipya sasa?

  30. Guest22Dec 23, 2018

    Seriously , I am sorry to say it but I worked with him and I worked with the detective. He is not crazy. He’s evil. They are about to charge him with a couple dozen more murders. They have dna. I know that he killed one of our clients but she was cremated and they don’t have enough evidence on it. He is definitely guilty of the others. His motive was money.

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