'Showing these kids we love them': Houston social groups, motorcycle clubs provide Thanksgiving dinner for children of gunned down family members

More than 20 social groups and motorcycle clubs have joined in an effort to provide Thanksgiving dinner for three children, whose parents and 6-year-old sister were killed in their apartment last summer, a Houston-area news station recently reported.

Manda Lagway, the children's grandmother, told ABC 13 Eyewitness News why this first thanksgiving since the shooting in June will be so hard.

"It hurts so bad, knowing I won't see my daughter and grandbaby," Langway, who now has custody of the three surviving children ages 10, nine and one, said in the news story.

Alfreda Franklin spearheaded the dinner as a way to show the children "we love them."

Franklin told the news station that organized the group effort, dozens of people from the different groups and motorcycle clubs, to provide the family with a Thanksgiving dinner because they should know they are surrounded by love.

"They lost their mother, their father and 6-year-old sister," Franklin said. "We are showing these kids we love them."

Only months have passed since the June 30 shooting deaths of Donyavia Lagway, 29, Gregory Carhee, 35, and their 6-year-old daughter, Harmony Carhee, inside their Fondren Road apartment, according to an ABC 13 news story at the time.

Their 10-year-old daughter was also shot but played dead until she could contact her grandmother.

"When she Facetimed me, she showed me what happened and said, 'Granny, my mom and dad got shot, and I got shot in the arm,'" Lagway said. "All I could do was fall to my knees."

The girl's 1-year-old brother was not injured and her 8-year-old brother was spending the night with family elsewhere.

Xavier Davis, 28, has since been charged with three counts of capital murder. Despite objections from the family, Davis, who also faces an unrelated charge of aggravated assault an incident involving his girlfriend, was offered bond in July but he remains in Harris County Jail, according to an online search. The jail's records also report that Davis has a court date on Tuesday, Nov. 30.

Since the family's loss, the groups organized by Franklin have taken in Lagway and her grandchildren, and Lagway said she is grateful for their efforts, according to the more recent news story.