TACOMA — Two sisters are accused of planning a robbery that ended with a Tacoma man being beaten to death with an air compressor last year.

Prosecutors charged both Pamela Jay Gabrilski-Jones, 46, and Marian Jones, 43, with first-degree murder and first-degree burglary. Gabrilski-Jones is charged with second-degree conspiracy to commit robbery, while Jones is charged with first-degree of that charge.

Both sisters are accused of persuading Christopher Charles Reyes, 47, to rob 56-year-old William Akers of narcotics and money. Things took a turn and Akers was found dead from multiple blunt-force injuries on Nov. 27.

Reyes has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty. He is being held at the Pierce County Jail on a $2 million bail, court records show. Reye

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