DYLAN ZAPHIER - 13 yo - (Jan 2011) / Charged: Omar Mohamed Kalmio - Fargo ND

Somali man charged with 4 murders in North Dakota

By DAVE KOLPACK, Associated Press
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9 hours ago



FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A Somali man charged in the fatal shooting of a
19-year-old woman in northwest North Dakota is now accused of killing
her mother, brother and the mother's boyfriend, who were found dead the
same day in mobile home across town.
Omar Mohamed Kalmio, 27, who
has a history of violent crime, was charged with murder several months
after his infant daughter's mother, Sabrina Zephier, was found dead at
her home in Minot in January 2011. The baby was found in the home
unharmed.

Court documents show prosecutors filed additional murder
charges Friday, alleging Kalmio also was the gunman who killed
13-year-old Dylan Zephier, 38-year-old Jolene Zephier, and Jolene's
22-year-old boyfriend, Jeremy Longie.

Multiple slayings are
virtually unheard of in North Dakota, which had 10 murders and
non-negligent homicides in all of 2010, according to data compiled by
the FBI.

Ward County State's Attorney Roza Larson declined to
comment on specifics of the case Wednesday, but she cited the ongoing
work by Minot police and the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
Police also declined comment.

"They have been working this case
since the murders occurred and they have been putting in a lot of
tireless hours," she said. "A lot of times when things take a while,
people have the perception that investigators aren't doing anything.
They truly have been doing a lot."

Kalmio, who has pleaded not
guilty in Sabrina Zephier's death, is being held without bond. His trial
was scheduled to begin June 4, but was cancelled when the new charges
were filed. His court-appointed attorney couldn't be reached for comment
Wednesday; a recorded phone message said his mailbox was full.

Kalmio
was arrested last August at the Grand Forks County jail, where he had
been held since February 2011 on an unrelated charge. Police have said
that last summer's devastating flooding in Minot may have delayed his
arrest, because police had to divert their efforts elsewhere.

The
Somali national has said he was in the U.S. under political asylum. He's
scheduled for a preliminary hearing June 19, and Larson said she
expects the case to go to trial.

Sabrina Zephier's body was found
in an apartment on Jan. 28, 2011, the same day the bodies of the other
three were found in a nearby mobile home. They all had been shot.
The Zephiers were members of South Dakota's Yankton Sioux Tribe.

Police
contend in court documents that a witness claimed Kalmio and Zephier
argued days before she was found dead, and Kalmio's co-workers at an oil
rig site near Williston claimed Kalmio had made statements about
Zephier purposely getting pregnant and ruining his life. Kalmio also
allegedly described injuries to Zephier that had not been publicly
disclosed, authorities said.

Kalmio was convicted in 2006 of
second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and sentenced to about a
year in prison. He and a group of other Somali men were accused of
attacking a man in Minneapolis in January 2006, and Kalmio stabbed him
three times in the back with a knife. Kalmio also was convicted of theft
in 2006, and ordered to pay a fine.


Associated Press writer Blake Nicholson in Bismarck contributed to this story.


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Omar Mohamed Kalmio Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murdering 4 In North Dakota
04/30/13 02:26 PM ET EDT AP


MINOT, N.D. -- A Somali national was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for killing the mother of his child and three other people in North Dakota two years ago.

Omar Mohamed Kalmio, 28, declined to comment following the 30-minute sentencing hearing, the Minot Daily News reported (http://bit.ly/ZxYxSA). Judge Douglas Mattson sentenced Kalmio to four consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Kalmio was convicted of fatally shooting 19-year-old Sabrina Zephier on Jan. 28, 2011, at her Minot home. Authorities said he then killed her 13-year-old brother, Dillon Zephier; her mother Jolene Zephier, 38; and Jolene's 22-year-old boyfriend, Jeremy Longie, at the mother's nearby mobile home. The baby girl was found unharmed in Sabrina Zephier's home. They were members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe.

Kalmio, who had a history of violent crime, was working in North Dakota's oil patch at the time of the killings and said he was in the U.S. under political asylum.

According to court documents, a witness said Kalmio and Zephier argued days before she was found dead. Kalmio's co-workers at an oil rig site near Williston claimed he had told them Zephier purposely became pregnant and that she had ruined his life. Authorities said Kalmio described injuries to Zephier that had not been publicly disclosed.

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