{"id":33255,"date":"2023-06-21T01:36:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T07:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-teenager-pleads-guilty-to-stabbing-mother-to-death-in-2022\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:08:00","slug":"cortez-teenager-pleads-guilty-to-stabbing-mother-to-death-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-teenager-pleads-guilty-to-stabbing-mother-to-death-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez teenager pleads guilty to stabbing mother to death in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sixteen-year-old Shyanne Boyd allegedly stabbed and killed her mother in July of 2022.<\/span>du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Sixteen-year-old Shyanne Boyd pleaded guilty to two separate charges on Tuesday after being accused of stabbing and killing her mother, Shaylie Lynn Boyd, on July 29, 2022.<\/p>\n

Judge Todd Plewe tentatively accepted the guilty plea, pending a presentencing investigation report and hearing. Boyd will learn whether her plea deal was accepted on Aug. 29 at her sentencing hearing at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n

Boyd\u2019s case was separated into two different cases Tuesday. She was charged as a juvenile with aggravated robbery and charged as an adult with second-degree murder. She pleaded guilty to both charges.<\/p>\n

When asked by Plewe if she understood that she was pleading guilty as an adult to the second-degree murder of her mother, Boyd responded, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Plewe accepts the plea deal, she could spend five years in the Department of Youth Corrections and seven years in the Youthful Offenders System, where her lawyer, Justin Bogan, said she would receive \u201ctrauma-informed treatment for troubled youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plewe said he will seek a recommendation from her current warden to determine whether she\u2019s fit for the juvenile system. If Boyd didn\u2019t successfully complete her seven years in the Youthful Offenders System, she could be incarcerated in the Department of Corrections for 20 years.<\/p>\n

If her plea were rejected, she would be tried as an adult and face the possibility of 20 years in the state Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n

She currently resides in a youth facility in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n

Bogan and Shyanne Boyd\u2019s family told contrasting stories about her life.<\/p>\n

Bogan described the crime as a \u201ctremendously tragic set of circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShyanne Boyd is a troubled young child and has been troubled for a long time,\u201d he said. He spoke of Boyd\u2019s absentee father and mother \u201cwith her own constellation of emotional of psychological problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Boyd was an unplanned pregnancy, born to parents who were unprepared to have a child, even alleging that Boyd\u2019s parents had told her that she \u201cshould have been an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he hoped a plea agreement could be reached in the case to help \u201cstrive for justice and strive for justice for children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shyanne Boyd had been raised by her grandparents and was active in 4-H Club, and Bogan said she experienced trauma by not having a traditional relationship with her parents, saying that her anxiety and trauma were \u201cignored.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she was 14, Bogan said, Shyanne Boyd and her then-boyfriend entered a suicide pact and acquired a handgun. When they were approached by police, her boyfriend killed himself, and fragments from the bullet lodged in her jaw and brain, causing her to be flown to Denver for care.<\/p>\n

Bogan said Boyd was a \u201csuicide-pact survivor and a young lady still processing familial trauma.\u201d He also encouraged Plewe to note that Boyd\u2019s brain had still not fully developed and her brain injury from the failed suicide should be taken into account.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven for the most disturbing charges, even in loss of life, justice is achieved when we treat children like children,\u201d Bogan said.<\/p>\n

After Bogan spoke, Boyd\u2019s family was given a chance to weigh in on the plea agreement and the case as a whole. Judge Plewe reminded her family that his job is to \u201cmake sure the law is being followed,\u201d and that he would \u201cnot be swayed by emotional arguments.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do want to hear from you to help me make a good decision,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Steve Boyd, Shyanne\u2019s grandfather and Shaylie\u2019s father, spoke first. He told Plewe that he had raised Shyanne since she was 2 years old and that she had been given every opportunity to choose a good path in life.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany would say she led a charmed childhood,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think she was ever an abused child by any means.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said coming from a broken family wasn\u2019t an excuse for the choices she had made, saying that he also had divorced parents. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t sit well with me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to see her tried as an adult and serve at least 20 years for what she\u2019s done to her mother,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tammy Samora, Shaylie\u2019s aunt, said she had been a single mom of five kids for years, and every parent makes mistakes, but \u201cnot one of my kids would stab me while I was in bed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was plotted, this was planned, and it was cold-blooded murder. We need justice for Shaylie. She took something so special to all of us,\u201d Samora said.<\/p>\n

She also tearfully spoke of Shaylie Boyd\u2019s other child, a 10-year-old son who now lives without his mother.<\/p>\n

Martika Myer also demanded justice, saying that a light sentence could embolden other youths to believe they could get away with murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer trouble started when she met a troubled boy,\u201d she said. \u201cWe all have choices; she chose her path. She needs to be punished. There is a 10-year-old boy that doesn\u2019t have his mom. \u2026 Let us fight for Shaylie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaylie Boyd\u2019s sisters-in-law Kiley Boyd and Breana Collins said Shaylie had been a \u201cwonderful person\u201d and \u201cthere was not a time she did not show unconditional love to her children.\u201d<\/p>\n

While her family spoke, Shyanne looked straight ahead, occasionally wiping her eyes with a tissue.<\/p>\n

Online, the Boyd family expressed frustration with District Attorney Christian Hatfield, who has been on the case for two weeks after being selected to the 22nd Judicial Judicial District.<\/p>\n

Plewe noted he had concerns about the contents of the resolution, but would \u201cprovisionally\u201d accept Shyanne\u2019s plea and move on to the next hearing, where he would be able to hear from her family again before making a final decision. A juvenile must have a hearing before being transferred to adult court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe I can proceed \u2026 to try as an adult without another hearing as a stipulation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Shyanne Boyd allegedly killed Shaylie Boyd on July 29, 2022. Shaylie Boyd\u2019s body was found by friends about 8 p.m. in her home north of Cortez on County Road L.<\/p>\n

Shyanne Boyd then fled in her family\u2019s green Dodge Caravan and picked up a 16-year-old boy in Cortez before turning herself in on July 30 in Leupp, Arizona, 44 miles northeast of Flagstaff.<\/p>\n

She is being held without bail. Her sentencing hearing is Aug. 29 at 9 a.m. and could last up to a full day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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