Disturbing police footage captures the moment a mother of two asserts she wouldn’t harm her sons, despite having taken their lives just moments earlier.
In November 2023, Tiffanie Lucas collapsed in the doorway of a neighbor’s home. Her neighbors reached out to emergency services, and upon the police’s arrival, officers discovered the tragic scene at Tiffanie’s residence: her sons, Maurice and Jayden, aged six and nine, were found dead from gunshot wounds to the head.
From the onset, Tiffanie was a prime suspect, leading to her swift apprehension for questioning.
Bodycam footage from the encounter reveals Tiffanie speaking with a detective, mentioning her sons playing video games.
She repeatedly expressed her love for her children, telling law enforcement officials that she is ‘not crazy’.
“I know I look crazy but I’m not crazy,” Tiffanie stated in the chilling video released by Law&Crime.
“I love my children. I love my boys so much. I wouldn’t have hurt them but I just felt that I was letting them play the video games and I wasn’t like focusing how I was supposed to, you know?
“Video games and the YouTube and the kids, it just messes their minds up to where people can manipulate their parents or do whatever they want.
“I feel like someone put something upon my house or me or something. I just don’t feel right. I don’t do this. I love my kids.”
After the bodycam-recording officer departed the interrogation room, Tiffanie confessed to discharging four shots in a span of 30 seconds, describing it as ‘an accident’.
As for her motive, she alleged being ‘manipulated through Facebook, through the internet or through Wi-Fi […] into doing what she did’, as reported by Law&Crime.
Recently, Tiffanie received two life sentences after admitting guilt to capital murder charges in October.
During the trial, Regina Rowan, Jayden’s grandmother, addressed Tiffanie with the following words: “My heart is in pieces, and you know that you have always had a place to drop them off.
“You took [Jayden] from me. And I hurt every day, every second of the day, I hurt. I want you to suffer just like I’m suffering right now.”
Under Kentucky’s criminal justice regulations, Tiffanie may be eligible for parole after 20 years.
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