On the evening of July 14, 2018, a domestic argument on Oak Lane in Sylvan Springs, Mulga, Alabama, ended with 41-year-old Keith Franklin Hilyer found dead from a gunshot at the end of the street. Deputies responding to a report that a woman had shot her husband located the victim and found the woman, identified as 33-year-old Amanda Leigh Hilyer, still at the scene.

According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, the couple had been engaged in a heated argument in the street before Amanda Hilyer reportedly broke into a neighbor’s vehicle, stole a handgun, and used that weapon to shoot her husband. Detectives recovered the firearm and took her into custody for questioning. On July 16, 2018, arrest warrants were issued charging Amanda Hilyer with Murder, Unlawful Breaking and Entering a Vehicle, and Theft of Property in the second degree; she was booked into the Jefferson County Jail with bonds set at $100,000.

If anyone witnessed the argument on Oak Lane that night or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.