ST. PAUL, Minn. — A man who shot and injured a 10-year-old boy on New Year’s Eve was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison on Friday.
Morris Ryan , 27, was found guilty in July of three counts of second-degree assault and one count each of drive-by shooting, first degree assault and attempted second-degree murder.
The criminal complaint states that Ryan was with 28-year-old Kelci Meyers that night, driving in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul. Ryan stopped behind the victim’s residence and fired more than a dozen rounds. The boy’s mother told police that she heard a man yell “f*** y’all, mother*******” before shots rang out, documents say.
One of the rounds hit her son in the stomach. Surveillance cameras captured Ryan’s SUV at the scene of the shooting, and his phone pinged in the area.
Ryan and Meyers were arrested later at a Hastings residence, where police recovered seven handguns, documents say. Meyers told investigators she was once the victim’s next-door neighbor and didn’t get along with his mother.