A woman has been charged in connection with the murders of a southwest Houston, Texas couple and their 6-year-old daughter last summer.
29-year-old Alexus Chenelle Williams is charged with three counts of capital murder in the shooting deaths of 29-year-old Donyavia Lagway, 35-year-old Gregory Carhee and 6-year-old Harmony Carhee inside their southwest Houston apartment on June 30, 2021.
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Their 10-year-old daughter was also shot and critically wounded. That brave little girl survived by playing dead as she held her 1-year-old baby brother who’d been thrown across the room by the killer.
“This incredible young lady was able to get up despite being gravely wounded, (and) care for her 1-year-old old baby brother who was still in the apartment,” Harris County prosecutor Sean Teare said.
Prosecutors say Williams had an affair with Lagway, but the mother of four ended it and decided to go back to her husband.
They say Williams hired 28-year-old Xavier Davis to kill the whole family and told him he could have all the money he found in their apartment in the 12100 block of Fondren. Williams may have even watched him murder the victims on her phone, according to prosecutors.
“He was on Facetime with Alexus Williams. That means she watched either the executions or the immediate aftermath of that family being wiped out,” said Sean Teare with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
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He said it’s possible Williams even spoke to the victims before they were gunned down.
Davis was arrested in early July on three capital murder charges and one charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge.
Williams only spoke once during the hearing on Thursday.
“I didn’t fully understand what you said,” Williams said to the judge.
“You have no bond in any of the three capital murders,” Judge Eva Flores responded.
Investigators said from the beginning that they believed a second suspect was involved. And they suspected it was Williams after learning about the affair.
But it took them months to crack her cell phone and then more time to sort through everything on it.
Prosecutors say they found long text messages between the two suspects on the day of the crime.
But it was that Facetime video that sealed Williams’ fate.
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