A Kenyan man known as Billy Chemirmir who murdered 18 people in the United States has been murdered by his cellmate in a US jail.
Chemirmir’s death was confirmed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The 50 year old was indicted on 22 capital murder charges. He committed 13 of these in Dallas County and 9 in Collin County.
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“Hannah Haney, a spokeswoman for the TDCJ, said Chemirmir was found dead in his cell Tuesday at the Coffield unit in Tennessee Colony, about 85 miles southeast of Dallas,” a report that appeared in the Dallas Morning News journal stated.
“Haney said his cellmate, who is serving a sentence for murder out of Dallas County, was the assailant. The cellmate’s name was not released.”
The authorities believed that Chemirmir began his killing spree in April 2016. Apparently, he posed as a medical professional or maintenance person and gained access to the properties of at least eighteen elderly women and smothered them with a pillow.
Billy Chemirmir was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole after he was convicted by the Dallas County juries in 2022 for killing two women in 2018. The Dallas County prosecutors had not asked for the death penalty upon him.
During his sentencing last year, the Dallas County Jury took 45 minutes to convict him of the murder of Lu Thi Harris.
He was then sentenced by Judge Raquel ‘Rocky’ Jones. He was also was being tried for the second time for the murder of Harris.
Chemirmir, whose full name was Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir, was born in Kabonyony village, a Kenyan suburb of Eldama Ravine as the son of a long-serving village chief.
He previously also had convictions for driving under the influence in Addison and Dallas in 2010 and 2011, receiving fines and short custodial sentences.
In July 2012, Chemirmir was arrested for assault on his then-girlfriend and in June 2016 for trespassing at Edgemere Retirement Community. He pleaded no contest to both charges later that year.
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