BOSTON -- Three people, including two high school students, were arraigned Tuesday in connection with the stabbing death of a pizza delivery driver.

Michel Andre St. Jean, 20, and Alexander Emmanuel Gallett, 18, both of Hyde Park, and Yamily Mathurin, 17, of Mattapan, are accused of luring Richel Nova, 58, to a vacant home Thursday on Hyde Park Avenue in Boston, where police say they robbed and stabbed Nova, a father of three, to death.

St. Jean, Gallett and Yamily were arraigned in West Roxbury District Court on charges of murder, armed robbery and armed breaking and entering.

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Hickman told the court it was never the defendants' intention for Nova to leave the building "in any other way than a body bag."

"Every new piece of evidence we uncover makes this crime more despicable," Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said. "Taken together, they paint a picture of almost unbelievable malevolence."

Officials allege Mathurin called for a pizza delivery to 742 Hyde Park Ave. using a neighbor's phone and gave St. Jean's cell phone as a call-back number. She allegedly inquired whether the deliveryman would be able to break a large bill and was told that drivers carried only $20 in change.

When Nova arrived with the delivery, prosecutors said Mathurin lured him around back and inside by telling him that her wallet was inside. Officials said her two co-defendants were lying in wait with knives, prepared to kill him and take his money.

Nova suffered multiple stab wounds to his chest, back and throat. Based on evidence at the scene and post-Miranda statements by all three defendants, investigators believe that they rifled through Nova's pockets as he was dying.

Gallett, Mathurin and St. Jean left the scene with Nova's cash and the pizza, police said, and they drove away in his car. Under an adjacent vehicle, investigators found a pizza box that still contained three slices of pepperoni pizza, prosecutors said.

St. Jean, Gallett and Yamily pleaded not guilty and were held without bail.

A funeral Mass for Nova will be held Wednesday morning at the Most Holy Reedemer Church in East Boston.