Woman who said she moved to be closer to family had really been plotting with her boyfriend to kill her sister before she started pharmacy school: Cops

A pistillate and her fellow are down bars aft they allegedly plotted to determination from Florida to Texas truthful they could termination her sister and bargain her wallet and car.

Alaya Jones, 20, and Kaleb Maglott, 25, are charged with superior execution successful the decease of 27-year-old Aveyia Webb successful Houston.

Jones and Maglott allegedly robbed and killed Webb, tribunal records say.

Family members told section ABC affiliate KTRK that they discovered Webb connected Thursday changeable to decease connected the sofa of her flat successful the 8100 artifact of Richmond Avenue. An aunt had gone to cheque connected Webb due to the fact that she was not responding to messages.

Relatives said successful an interrogation with the outlet that Jones had been surviving successful Florida with Maglott. Jones told them she wanted to determination backmost to Houston to beryllium person to household and friends.

But substance messages betwixt Jones and her fellow allegedly revealed a much sinister motive.

"They bought a weapon successful Florida, came present [to], verbatim, 'Kill Aveyia and instrumentality her stuff.' And that was recovered connected Alaya's phone," Webb's aunt Edie Smith-Anderson told KTRK.

After sidesplitting Webb and stealing her wallet, Jones and Maglott drove disconnected successful the victim's car, household members say. Houston constabulary arrested the suspects aboriginal that day.

"We would person ne'er thought we had to support her from her ain small sister," Smith-Anderson said.

Webb's aunt Beverly Hobbs said the victim, who worked arsenic a hairstylist, was known for her positivity and was astir to commencement pharmacy school.

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"She was acceptable to instrumentality connected the world, and her airy was taken retired by not a stranger, but her household member, idiosyncratic that she would person done thing for," Hobbs said. "She had truthful galore things going for her — that's what makes this truthful hard."

Jones and Maglott are successful the Harris County Jail without bond. Their adjacent tribunal day was not instantly listed.