On June 26, 2014, in the Hillside area of Anchorage, Alaska, Breanna Richelle Moore, a 20-year-old white female was found shot to death. Anchorage police quickly focused on her boyfriend, 22-year-old Joshua Daniel Almeda, who was arrested that day on suspicion of second-degree murder; authorities also booked him on weapons misconduct and theft charges connected to the scene.
The loss of the 20-year-old female reverberated through her family and city, the abrupt ending of a young life that friends and relatives called bright and energetic.
In the hours and days that followed, investigators pieced together the setting of the killing: Moore, a 20-year-old female, had been shot in the basement of Almeda's parents' home in Anchorage. The early narrative that emerged in court records described a violent end to a troubled dating relationship, a private moment of fatal harm that left little doubt about the intimate-partner context in which the 20-year-old female was slain.
The criminal case moved through Alaska's courts over the next two years. Almeda ultimately entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder and, in 2016, received a 75-year prison sentence for killing the 20-year-old female. Appellate records later summarized the superior court's rationale, noting findings about the relationship, the circumstances of the shooting, and the seriousness of the conduct.
In the years after the sentencing, the case continued surfacing in appellate dockets—not to contest guilt, but over issues such as restitution and the length of the 75-year term. Alaska's Court of Appeals upheld the outcome and documented an award of restitution to Moore's family, underscoring that the legal system's final word recognized both the gravity of the crime and the harm suffered by those left behind. The arc of the case thus records a swift arrest, a single identified suspect, a felony conviction by guilty plea, and a long prison term for the man who killed the 20-year-old female in the Hillside neighborhood that summer day.
