Murder Victim’s Family Angry at Release

LONGVIEW — A Longview man convicted of murder 23 years ago will be free by summer. KETK reports the victims were a husband, his wife, and their toddler son. In April of 1984, Jerry and Brenda Morgan were found murdered in their home in Longview. Jerry had been shot multiple times. Brenda was shot once in the back of the neck and bled to death. Their 22-month-old son Devin had been held with one hand by the killer, and shot once in the face.

The case went cold until 1990, when the former wife of longtime drug dealer Alvin Kelly told authorities about the crime. Kelly was in jail on another murder conviction. He was convicted of the murder of the boy and given the death penalty. His accomplice, Ronnie Wilson, who was there but didn’t pull the trigger, was given 66 years.

KETK spoke with District Judge David Brabham in Longview, who was DA at the time. He only said they chose not to seek death for Wilson, but wouldn’t say why. Kelly was executed in 2009, still saying he didn’t commit the crime. And now, Wilson is about to be given parole. Lori Kubecka was 10 at the time of the murders of her uncle and his family. “I just don’t feel that he served enough time. We’re living through this daily,” she says. “If you’re helping with a murder, I don’t care who’s doing it. you’re just as guilty.”