‘Odd sisterhood’: Families of Billy Chemirmir’s alleged victims meet in support of senior-living bills
Measures would increase security at independent-living communities and boost enforcement of regulations on cash-for-gold shops.
Shannon Dion, president of Secure Our Senior s Safety, spoke during Wednesday s news conference in Plano. Dion, whose mother was among those whom Billy Chemirmir is suspected of killing, said it was emotional to meet many victims family members for the first time.(Lola Gomez)
They knew all about one another’s mothers. Where they lived. How they died.
But many of the families two dozen in all who say their loved ones were killed by Billy Chemirmir, the man awaiting trial for 18 counts of capital murder, had never met before Wednesday.
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Lawmakers file series of bills to address senior security, cash-for-gold after Dallas-area killings
The measures are in response to the 2016-18 string of slayings at independent living communities in which Billy Chemirmir is in jail as the suspect.
The 87th Texas Legislature is called into session at the Texas Capitol building in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. (Lynda M. González/The Dallas Morning News)(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
Updated with comment from the American Seniors Housing Association.
Nearly three years after the arrest of a man who is accused of killing two dozen elderly women at senior living complexes in North Texas, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is taking steps they say will protect seniors.