SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The adult sons of a woman who was allegedly killed by her husband at the couple’s Bay Park home have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against their father.
The lawsuit was filed Friday in San Diego Superior Court on behalf of Neil and Nicholas Coates, whose 61-year-old mother, Monica Coates, died on Dec. 29, 2025.
Police and prosecutors allege her husband, Stephen Coates, crashed his pickup truck into their Dakota Drive home, then started a fire in the residence…