25-Year-Old Rejects Plea Offer in Mother’s Death

By Alyssia Davis [former] - September 7, 2021
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Victims |

A Baltimore resident rejected a plea offer during reception court on Sept. 7 before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa M. Phinn

Eshyna Lachelle Young, 25, is charged with first-degree murder, first and second-degree arson, and first-degree malicious burning in connection to an incident on March 6, 2019. 

Judge Phinn listened as the prosecutor presented a plea of life, suspending all but 45 years, with five years probation for first-degree murder. 

The defendant and her defense attorney, Julie Shapiro, rejected the plea offer. 

According to Baltimore Fox 45 News, on March 6 at approximately 12:50 a.m., Baltimore City Fire and Police departments responded to a home in the unit block of S. Morley Street for a fire. 

Firefighters extinguished the fire and found Young’s mother, 50-year-old Tinestta Young, inside. Medics attempted to revive the victim; however, she was unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene. 

Following an autopsy, medical examiners learned that Young’s mother did not die from the fire but rather from asphyxiation.

Police said Young, who was 22 at the time of the alleged murder, was arrested and charged with killing her mother on March 6, the same day of the fire at the family’s residence. 

A trial for Young has not yet been scheduled.