5 charged in crime spree that left missing couple dead

In a dramatic courtroom moment, Maria Chrisalee Aparece's uncle lunged at the man police say pulled the trigger in her murder during a hearing this morning in which five people were charged in connection with the deaths of Aparece, 23, and 17-year-old Huy Ngo. It was the first time Aparece's family has come in contact with Dexter Johnson, the 18-year-old who was arrested last week, and seeing Johnson was apparently too much for Irvin Aparece.

"We came in from Illinois Saturday night, and I think he, this is the first time he heard what they did to her," Angelina Aparece-Anduyan, an aunt, said. "It was just too much for him.

"It's very hard to see the faces and imagine what they did to them," Aparece-Anduyan said.

Among the details revealed during the hearing was that police believe Johnson sexually assaulted Aparece before killing her. He was charged today in the murders of Aparece, Ngo and Brady Davis, a 61-year-old former schoolteacher who was robbed and killed May 26 while washing a barbecue grill at a northeast Houston car wash. Irvin Aparece was restarained and released about an hour after he lunged at Johnson.

Also charged Monday were Ashley Ervin and Timothy Randall, both accused of capital murder; Keithron Fields, accused of walking Aparece and Ngo into the field where Johnson shot them and of shooting Jose Lopez, another robbery victim; and Alvie Butler, charged in a separate kidnapping and murder that happened Wednesday. Police said all of them have confessed to all the crimes, and they're looking for a sixth suspect in the crime spree.