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Ethiopian woman helped police to arrest Dallas murder suspect Abey Belete Girma

According to EMF, the suspected killer of an Ethiopian couple in Dallas was caught with a hit list, 15 guns and $20,000 before an Ethiopian woman in Colorado helped police to arrest him Saturday night.

(DALLAS MORNING NEWS) — Late last night we learned that Abey Girma, the fugitive suspected of gunning down a Lower Greenville husband and wife on their front porch, had been arrested in Colorado.

Now we know how that went down, and it looks like police can thank an alert news reader at tight-knit Ethiopian church.

Short background: Police believe Girma, a customer at Yared Lemma and Yenni Desta’s Ethiopian restaurant, felt disrespected by the couple for some reason Wednesday night. So he allegedly followed them home and shot them to death, then forced a coworker to help him flee the state.

The next day in Aurora, Colo., a woman worshiping at St. Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Church spots a strange man hanging around. According to Aurora police, he calls himself Abey.

Abey asks the woman for her phone number, police say. She refuses.

The next day the woman sees Girma at the church again. And that night, police say, he comes knocking at her door and window. She doesn’t answer.

Now, the Ethiopians in Aurora are well aware of the Dallas slaying. It’s big news in a small community. So the woman does some some Googling, find’s Girma’s mugshot and immediately recognizes him as her stalker.

She calls police right away, and about an hour later officers find his vehicle in the church parking lot. He’s arrested at a traffic stop without incident, and is now reportedly awaiting extradition to Dallas.

4 thoughts on “Ethiopian woman helped police to arrest Dallas murder suspect Abey Belete Girma

  1. Dear Ato Elias:

    Thank you for working very hard to keep us abreast with the latest development regarding this beast. Such senseless crime is not new in our community here in the USA. I remember one such story of a brute who shot 3 people to death because he lost a $25.00 bet. This was about 33-34 years ago in the Midwest. And he was sentenced to a mere 30 years in prison because he decided to plead guilty and opted for a bench trial. His defense lawyer successfully argued in court that the murderer shot the victims not for the money but he felt his pride was touched by the loss. He argued that according to the tradition in Ethiopia men take a bet loss extremely hard. And the judge bought that reasoning and gave the animal 30 years with a possibility of parole. I read the story in one of the Chicago papers then when I was there for a trade show. I bet you that animal is out of prison by now and living among us. People who lived in the Chicago area then could have a better grasp of the story than I can tell about it. This beast may play the same game now to save his skin and receive a light sentence with a possibility of parole.
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  2. HA HA, I am glad that this bastard committed this crime in Texas. He will definitely get a death penality. He will be sitting on a death row for a couple of years, which in the mean time gets his “respect” from his cell-mets and other criminals.

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