Two Montgomery County men were charged in a failed murder-for-hire plot earlier this week, according to prosecutors. Zunir Wilson-Walker, 22, an inmate at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, and Jadan Uriah Jones, 20, of Norristown, are accused of planning to kill Wilson-Walker’s ex-girlfriend, the mother of his 1-year-old child.

The alleged murder-for-hire plot was discovered when prison officials began investigating Zunir Wilson-Walker, 22, for misuse of the inmate telephone system, prosecutors said. Wilson-Walker allegedly had been communicating with Jaden Jones, 20, of Norristown, to arrange using Instagram to put out the hit.

A Montgomery County jail inmate asked a man to create an Instagram account that offered $15,000, a watch and a car to anyone who could beat up and kill the mother of his child, investigators said.

An inmate at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility attempted to hire someone to kill his former girlfriend and enlisted the help of a Norristown man to set up the plot using social media,

Two men are charged in a murder-for-hire scheme that authorities say started in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility. Authorities say an inmate there tried to hire someone to kill his ex-girlfriend.