Alameda mass shooting victim's dying declaration revealed

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — One of the Alameda mass shooting victims made a dying declaration after he and four family members were shot in their beach-side home, according to a police report obtained by KRON4.

Miguel Carcamo Ramirez was bleeding from gunshot wounds when he stumbled to a nearby house and told his neighbor that his son-in-law shot him.

The son-in-law is 54-year-old Shane Killian. “During his dying declaration, Victim 1 identified the defendant (Killian) as the murder suspect,” a sergeant wrote in a police report.

Killian is charged with murdering his wife, 36-year-old Brenda Natali Morales; baby, 1-year-old Wesley James Killian; son, 6-year-old William Andrew Killian; mother-in-law; and father-in-law, 70-year-old Miguel Carcamo Ramirez.

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price assigned two veteran deputy district attorneys to serve as a trial team for the case. “We have taken that exceptional step in light of this mass shooting,” Price told reporters on Wednesday.

“The tragedies that occur in our homes involving intimate partner violence we know is often under-reported, and sometimes we are not aware of it until it explodes with death and tragedy,” Price said. She added that intimate partner violence can happen to anyone who feels like they are “trapped.”

A police report written by Alameda Police Department Sgt. Spencer Mountain details what investigators uncovered at 417 Kitty Hawk Road after the five family members were shot on the night of July 10.

A neighbor called 911 and told police that Ramirez “named the defendant as the shooter,” Mountain wrote. Ramirez was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

When APD officers arrived at the Killian family home, they found two women dead inside. The women were later identified as Killian’s wife and his mother-in-law. Officers also found a 1-year-old baby and 6-year-old boy who had been shot.

“Officers located the defendant at the crime scene. Of the six residents at the home where this mass murder shooting occurred, the defendant was the only person unscathed. Everyone else sustained at least one gun shot wound,” Sgt. Mountain wrote in the police report.

Baby Wesley clung to life for days inside a hospital until he passed away.

The police report says the murder weapon was a semi-automatic pistol that officers found in the home. Officers found additional guns owned by Killian in the home, including an assault rifle.

Killian did not enter a plea during his first two court appearances . One victim’s niece, Karen Diaz, sat in the courtroom gallery. “I felt very disgusted being on the other side and seeing him with no face expression. Nothing. I don't know how someone can just stand there and not be sad about something like this,” Diaz told KRON4.

Another niece, Esmerelda Juarez, said, “We're broken into million pieces. This pain will never go away.”

Killian is being held in jail without bail. If convicted of five murder charges, he will face a maximum sentence of 246 years to life in prison, according to the DA's office. His next court appearance is set for August 30.

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