"36-year-old Brenda Natali Morales made a phone call to an uncle just minutes before her husband, Shane Killian, fatally shot her, their two sons, and Morales's parents in a drunken rage on July 10, 2024, prosecutors say. In the nearly two years since five family members were brutally killed inside a home on Kitty Hawk Lane in Alameda, we've heard very little about the case against 56-year-old Shane Killian. Killian was arrested and charged with the crime, in which his younger wife, his in-laws, and his two small boys were all fatally shot, but little else about the case has been made public."
"That changed with a preliminary hearing this week, in which an Alameda County judge ruled that there is sufficient evidence to take Killian to trial. Killian's defense attorney presented evidence that Morales was enraged the night of the crime, and that she was the one who pulled the trigger, killing her children and parents. Killian's attorney, Christina Moore, reportedly pointed to a phone call that Morales made just minutes before the shooting occurred."
"In the call, Moore argued, Killian acted as a "voice of reason" and Morales appeared to be the "emotional" one, according to a description from her uncle. Morales reportedly told her uncle in Arkansas that she wanted to take her kids and come stay with him, after Killian had reportedly come home and gotten belligerantly drunk. Killian reportedly told the uncle that he did not trust Morales, but the uncle told him he would talk to him when he was sober, and Killian reportedly said, "Yes, we're going to talk, and everything will be fine.""
Brenda Natali Morales called an uncle minutes before the July 10, 2024 killings that left her, her two sons, and her parents dead. Shane Killian was arrested and charged in the slayings, but public information remained limited until a preliminary hearing found sufficient evidence to proceed to trial. The defense presented a theory that Morales was enraged and fired the shots, citing a phone call in which Killian allegedly acted calm while Morales sounded emotional. The judge highlighted neighbor testimony that Morales's father, wounded, said he was dying and blamed his son-in-law for the shooting.
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