n of Donyavia Lagway, reads her victim impact statement to Alexus Williams in Harris County District Court in Houston Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. Williams pleaded guilty to downgraded charges of murder in the 2021 deaths of Donyavia Lagway, 29, and Gregory Carhee, 35, and their daughter, Harmony, 6. Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle Robins declared Williams the orchestrator of their deaths. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Williams, 33, sat still, pursing her lips at one point as the family confronted her in court as part of their victim impact statements - an opportunity for victims' relatives to tell the judge how a crime affected them. She appeared before Judge Brian Warren for the statements following her decision to accept a plea bargain that downgraded her charges from capital murder. She declined an opportunity to speak before Warren imposed her sentence. Had she proceeded to trial - and she nearly did - Williams would have faced life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Robins' mother, Angela Ervin, said the couple's three surviving children remain troubled by the killings, worrying that no one loves them now that their parents are gone. Alexus Williams is shown during victim impact statements in Harris County District Court in Houston Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle They went down a really bad road because of greed, jealousy and evil, Ervin said. One day they can start to live a normal life. Advertisement Article continues below this ad One child was home and shot in the arm as she attempted to shield herself from Davis. She testified at his trial, but rarely speaks of the shooting. The third child was a baby at the time and has no memory of her parents or what happened. According to trial testimony, Davis, a childhood friend of Williams, stormed into the family's apartment and demanded money wearing a mask and armed with a revolver. He shot and killed Lagway, Carhee, and their daughter one by one in less than five minutes. Xavier Davis stands with his defense team as he is sentenced to death for capital murder in the 2021 killings of three people, including a 6-year-old child, at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center in Houston, Thursday, April 17, 2025. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle Houston police Lt. Joshua Horn, the former homicide detective who investigated Davis, said the case will be on his mind for years to come. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Walking into that apartment and seeing the carnage that we saw - that's going to forever stick with me, Horn said following the statements. Horn's investigation led to Davis' capture the next day. Police found $3,340 in cash on him, according to testimony. Davis' attorneys argued at trial that a life sentence was more appropriate because of his impoverished and abusive upbringing. The jury ultimately sentenced Davis to death, concluding he was a future danger to society and there weren't sufficient mitigating circumstances to warrant a life sentence. Prosecutor Chandler Raine shows a photo of 6-year-old Harmony Carhee, who was fatally shot along with her mother and father in 2021, as he gives closing arguments in the punishment phase of Xavier Davis' capital murder trial for their deaths. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle Chandler Raine, one of the prosecutors who tried Davis, said Williams helped plan the killing by driving Davis around hours earlier so he could steal a man's Jeep at gunpoint. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Davis then used the vehicle to carry out the shooting and later set it ablaze in a grassy field in Pearland.