Insets, from left: Alexus Chenelle Williams (Harris County Jail), Harmony Carhee, Donyavia Lagway and Gregory Carhee (Jammie R. Pruitt Funeral Home). Background: Totoro Place Apartments in Houston, Texas (KHOU).
A Texas woman who watched via FaceTime as a hired gun killed three people—including her former girlfriend and a 6-year-old child—has been sentenced to decades in prison.
Alexus Chenelle Williams, 33, pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and received a 40-year prison sentence for the deaths of Gregory Carhee, 35; Donyavia Lagway, 29; and the couple’s 6-year-old daughter, Harmony Carhee.
The Houston triple homicide took place on June 30, 2021, at the Totoro Place Apartments on Fondren Road near West Airport Boulevard. According to court documents obtained by local CBS affiliate KHOU, Williams recruited her childhood friend, Xavier Davis, then 28, to carry out the attack. She told him there was money inside the apartment that he could take. Williams had previously been in a relationship with Lagway.
Lagway had since reunited with her husband, Carhee, and was pregnant with his child when she was killed.
Williams watched through FaceTime as Davis forced his way into the apartment after Carhee opened the door and began firing. Carhee, Lagway and Harmony were struck, as was the couple’s 10-year-old daughter. The girl survived by pretending to be dead while holding the hand of her 1-year-old brother.
Once Davis fled, the 10-year-old girl alerted relatives, who contacted police.
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A tip led investigators to Davis, who was arrested carrying $3,000 and ammunition that matched shell casings recovered at the apartment. Detectives later found the suspected murder weapon at the home of Davis’ girlfriend.
Investigators believed Williams was involved from the beginning, but waited several months to arrest her while they developed the case.
“The one who’s not in custody, even though I’m not going to say your name, you know who you are, and so do we,” then-Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said during a news conference.
Williams later attended the victims’ funerals, KHOU reported.
Text messages exchanged between Williams and Davis became central to the investigation and helped connect her to the killings. Police arrested Williams in March 2022, roughly eight months after the murders.
Davis pleaded guilty to three counts of capital murder and was sentenced to death in April.
