Chris Norris and Liyah Webster were excitedly planning for their baby’s upcoming gender reveal.

The Disney-inspired party was set for April 6, and it was there that friends and family would find out if the baby was going to a “Moana” or a “Maui.”

Instead, loved ones are now planning a vigil and funerals for the young couple after the vanished Valentine’s Day and were found murdered inside their vehicle two days later in a Wylam alley.

“They were really happy to be parents,’’ said Sherita Clark, Norris’s cousin.

Angeliyah ne-vaeh Jolie Webster and Christan Tyre Norris, both 20, were last seen about 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14, in the 1500 block of 20th Place in Ensley.

They were believed to be on their way to a movie date at an unknown theater. They were in a white Ford Taurus.

Their bodies were found about 4 p.m. Friday inside Norris’s vehicle in the 4100 block of 10th Avenue in Wylam.

Clark said the victims’ mothers had been trying to call them Thursday but to no avail.

They immediately became concerned.

“Normally they’d check in throughout the day,” Clark said. “There’s not a day that goes by that they’re not communicating with someone in their family. “

Concern quickly turned to alarm.

“It had had been a full 24 hours and no one had seen them or heard from them,’’ she said. “You get a little concerned when you don’t talk to them for one day but when it hits two days and no one has heard from them, that becomes a problem. “

They filed a report with the Birmingham Police Department which issued bulletins for the couple late Thursday night.

On Friday, the family continued their own search.

“They were driving away all day,’’ Clark said. “We’d heard so many different stories and people were messaging us.”

There was much discussion on social media about the disappearance. Some of it was helpful, and much of it was not.

“People are making a game out of someone being murdered,’’ Clark said.

The family on Friday also went to the dealership where Norris had bought his car. They were able to “ping” the vehicle’s general location as somewhere in Wylam.

The family then headed that way, as did Birmingham police detectives who independently learned of a possible location for the Taurus.

Soon, their worst fears were realized.

“It’s devastating,’’ Clark said.

Clark said the young couple will be missed.

Norris, she said, loved his family and his girlfriend.

“He loved Angeliyah and was very excited about them getting ready to have a baby,’’ she said.

Webster was pleasant to be around.

“She was a smiley person,’’ Clark said. “She gave big hugs.”

The family is pleading that anyone with information to come forward.

“We need people to come forward and tell what they know,’’ she said. “People know what’s going on. I have a few tips also.”

She said she has no idea why someone would target the couple.

“I don’t think there’s any justification for killing someone no matter what the circumstance was,’’ Clark said.

“I don’t think the families would care why this would happen,’’ she said. “I just think they want the person taken off the streets before it happens again.”

Anyone with information is asked to call Birmingham detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.