Robbery charges filed against woman cops say is connected to Lexington street gang
More criminal charges were filed this week against members of a Lexington street gang that prosecutors say orchestrated a 2023 murder-for-hire plot that killed a federal witness.
Shylah Lyvers, 25, of Lexington, was charged Wednesday with engaging in an organized crime syndicate, two counts of complicity to burglary, two counts of complicity to adult kidnapping and complicity to kidnap a minor.
Lyvers is the girlfriend of one of the eight members of the Hot Boyz, a Lexington gang, charged in the September 2023 shooting death of Kristopher Lewis. The robbery in which she’s charged happened about two months before that.
Lyvers’ charges are in state court, while the others are in federal court.
According to Lyvers’ criminal complaint, three men dressed in black entered a Richmond home on Mallory Court with guns on the day of the robbery and tied up a man and a woman whose child was upstairs. The men demanded money, but the family escaped unharmed.
Lyvers reported her blue Kia Optima stolen just minutes after police were called for the robbery. An officer met Lyvers at a home in Richmond belonging to her cousin, Casey Morris.
Morris, 29, was one of the two people indicted last month in Lewis’ death. The other six were indicted earlier this fall.
A year before he was killed, Lewis was indicted alongside Rollie Lamar on charges of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and money laundering. Lewis was going to testify at Lamar’s trial, court documents show. But he was gunned down first.
Morris was charged with using interstate commerce in commission of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to use interstate commerce in commission for murder-for-hire, and conspiracy to use a firearm in a crime of violence. She faces a maximum sentence of the death penalty or life in prison.
While investigating Lyvers’ report of a stolen vehicle, police noticed several inconsistencies with her story and that her car matched the video surveillance footage of the car involved in the Mallory Court burglary.
Police later found the car in Lexington and in Lyvers’ possession. She told police she found it on Ty Lane in Richmond. Police had the car impounded and found the debit card of Lyvers’ boyfriend, William “Que” Dixon, during a search.
Dixon is one of two people accused of carrying out the hit on Lewis, along with Desmond Bellomy, 26. Bellomy is identified in court documents as the boyfriend of Morris.
Prosecutors argue Lyvers let her boyfriend use her car for the burglary.
Other Hot Boyz members indicted in connection with Lewis’ killing are: Rollie Deshawn Lamar, 32, Daquis Damarr Sharp, 27, Quincino Lamont Waide Jr., 24, Jatiece Alvin Parks, 21, and DeAngelo Montavius Boone, 26.
Lyvers’ preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 10.
