Alaya Jones and Kaleb Maglott are charged with capital murder in Aveyia Webb's death

In Texas, murder alleged to have happened during a robbery is one of the theories that can be charged as capital murder. That is the accusation ABC13 attributed to the court documents against Jones and Maglott. An aunt's description of text messages is a relative's account of what she says was on a phone. The charge sets what the State will have to prove. It does not decide that a robbery, a plan, or a cause of death has already been proved.

ABC13 reported that Webb was found dead Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, in her apartment in the 8100 block of Richmond Avenue. Her aunt, Beverly Hobbs, told the station she went to check after Webb stopped answering, went inside when no one came to the door, and found Webb dead on the couch. ABC13, citing court documents, reported that those documents accuse Jones, Webb's sister, and Jones's partner, Maglott, of robbing and killing Webb inside the apartment. The station said both were arrested Thursday and charged with capital murder.

Relatives told ABC13 that the two took Webb's vehicle and wallet, and that Jones had been living in Florida and had told the family she was coming to Houston to move back. Aunt Edie Smith-Anderson told ABC13 she believes texts on Jones's phone show the trip was planned. She said the messages included language about buying a gun in Florida, killing Webb, and taking her things. That is Smith-Anderson's description of the phone, as ABC13 reported it. It is not a transcript a jury has accepted.

A capital-murder filing is the accusation and the penalty range the State is putting in front of a court. It does not decide whether a killing happened in the course of a robbery, which is the theory ABC13 said the papers allege. Jones and Maglott are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.