Woman to be sentenced for drive-by shooting of injured boy on New Year's Eve in St. Paul

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A 28-year-old woman will be sentenced Monday for her role in a New Year's Eve drive-by shooting in St. Paul that seriously injured 10 year old boy.

Kelci Meyers, of Hastings, was convicted in April of three felonies: complicity to second-degree murder, complicity to first-degree assault and complicity to drive-by shooting, according to the Ramsey County Prosecutor's Office.

The criminal complaint says Meyers was driving with a 27-year-old man. Morris Ryan in an alley off Sherburne Avenue, a block west of North Dale Street in the Frogtown neighborhood.

Ryan allegedly fired more than a dozen shots into a residence. The victim's mother told police the shooting happened while she was filming a New Year's video with her children. She said she heard a man shout “fuck you, motherf******” before gunshots rang out, the complaint states.

One of the bullets hit her son in the stomach and exited through his buttocks. The boy survived his injury.

Multiple surveillance cameras captured Ryan's SUV at the scene of the shooting and minutes later at a nearby gas station, where Meyers made a purchase, according to the complaint. Ryan's cell phone was also pinged in the area.

The two men were then arrested at a residence in Hastings, where police recovered seven handguns.

The complaint says Meyers later told police she was once the victim's neighbor and did not get along with her mother.

Ryan was charged with attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and committing a drive-by shooting.

Meyers and Ryan pleaded not guilty. The attempted murder charge alone carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Meyers will be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. at the Ramsey County Courthouse. Ryan's preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 20.

Three other people were shot the same evening in Saint-Paul, including one fatally.