Crime

3 charged in execution-style slayings of couple in gated community

/ AP

HOUSTON - Three men have been charged with capital murder after investigators accused them of following a suburban Houston couple to their home in an upscale gated community, forcing them into their house at gunpoint, fatally shooting them, then ransacking their house.

 Erick Alfredo Peralta, 20, Aakiel Ricardo Kendrick, 21, and Khari Ty Kendrick, 23 have been arrested in the capital murders of Bao and Jenny Lam. Harris County Sheriffs Office via KHOU

The Harris County Sheriff's Office says Aakiel Ricardo Kendrick, Khari Ty Kendrick and Erick Alfredo Peralta were arrested Wednesday. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says one of the men confessed to killing Bao and Jenny Lam, both 61, Thursday at their Spring home.

Gonzalez says the men crawled under the gate to the community and waited for the Lams to return from dinner out Thursday night before forcing them at gunpoint to lead them into the house. Gonzalez said the Lams were killed execution style and their home ransacked for guns and jewelry.

All were denied bond and remain in Harris County Jail. None have attorneys.

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