Salisbury Mother Sentenced as Accessory to Pizza City Shooting

SALISBURY, Md. – The mother of Mykel Elliot, who was recently convicted in relation to the 2023 Pizza City shooting, was sentenced on Friday after for accessory after the fact to first degree murder.

On Nov. 7, 37-year-old Kyeisha Elliott was sentenced by Judge S. James Sarbanes to ten years in prison, with five years as active incarceration and another five years suspended in lieu of probation. The sentencing followed Elliott’s guilty plea in Sept. 2023 to accessory after the fact to first degree murder. She was on pretrial release pending her sentencing.

In the early hours of Apr. 16, 2023, Mykel Elliott and others located rival gang members at Pizza City early, shooting one victim to death and shooting another surviving victim multiple times. In the hours and days following the murder, Kyeisha Elliott assisted her son in evading authorities and otherwise impeded the police investigation of the crime.

“Violent criminals in our County are increasingly protected and emboldened by those around them who obstruct police investigations by hiding information, giving false information and by various other illegal means,” said State’s Attorney Jamie L. Dykes in a statement. “Those who do so contribute to the violence in our society and must be held accountable just as the actual perpetrators are.”