Tiffanie Lucas, 33, of Shepherdsville admitted to taking pictures 6-year-old son Maurice and 9-year-old son Jayden within the head in November 2023. Each boys died from their accidents on the hospital. She was given two life sentences final week, with the choose handing down the utmost sentence attainable; with Lucas eligible for parole in 20 years.

Video shared by Legislation&Crime — which is not embeddable however might be considered at their website — first reveals her laying on the bottom on the driveway of her dwelling as a second wave of officers reply to the house.

She’s already in handcuffs on the time, as she tells the recording officer her title is Tiffanie. She provides that she hasn’t been utilizing medicine or ingesting, earlier than telling the officer she “do not feel proper” when requested why she will be able to’t arise straight.

The video them cuts to the interrogation room, as she tells the officer watching her within the room to cease shifting his fingers.

“I am watching you on digital camera transfer your fingers a number of instances. You retain shifting them. Cease. I am watching,” she tells him. “It isn’t proper. Cease!”

She additionally claims he is shifting them to each sound that is being made, earlier than a telephone begins going off because the interviewing officer enters the room.

“Why is it doing that? Quickly as you stroll within the door, that is bizarre. As quickly as you stroll, it is not proper,” she tells him. “Each time I say one thing, your telephone goes off.”

The second officer then asks her to inform her somewhat about herself, like the place she’s from, earlier than she opens up about her sons, unprompted.

“I do know I look loopy however I am not loopy. I really like my youngsters. I really like my boys a lot. I would not harm them however I simply felt like I used to be letting them play the video video games and I wasn’t like focusing how I used to be presupposed to, you already know?” she tells him.

“Video video games and the YouTube and the children, it simply messes their minds as much as the place individuals can manipulate their dad and mom or do no matter they need,” she continues. “I really feel like somebody put one thing upon my home or me or one thing. I simply do not feel proper. I do not do that. I really like my youngsters.”

She then begins breaking down in sobs.

On November 8, 2023, the sound of gunshots was captured on a Ring digital camera close to Lucas’ dwelling, earlier than Lucas herself ran out of the residence pleading for assist. A neighbor responded, discovering the boys and calling police.

Responding officers reportedly mentioned Lucas collapsed within the driveway earlier than telling him that her “youngsters have been dying” inside. The 2 youngsters have been discovered subsequent to the gun, coated in blood.

When she was questioned by police, Lucas reportedly mentioned, “I am in such a foul spot,” “I am so silly,” and, “I’d by no means do something like this until somebody manipulated me.”

Per Detective Richard Beahl, who testified throughout a earlier court docket look, Lucas “made statements that she was being manipulated by way of Fb, by way of the web or by way of Wi-Fi … into doing what she did.”

Lucas beforehand entered a not responsible plea, whereas attorneys have been reportedly looking for an madness protection. In October, nevertheless, she modified her plea to responsible.

Earlier than sentencing, her attorneys gave their first feedback on the case, reportedly claiming Lucas had “highly effective delusions” on the day of the taking pictures and tried to shoot herself, however it jammed. In addition they confirmed video to spotlight her obvious psychological state main as much as the murders, together with footage the place she was reportedly seen pleading, “I must have good individuals round me. I want household. I need assistance.”

Maurice Baker Sr., the daddy of one of many victims, gave an impression assertion as nicely earlier than Lucas was sentenced — claiming she “held my son over my head.”

“So many birthdays he missed. I had a celebration deliberate, and he or she by no means let him come. I begged her,” he mentioned. “The final time I texted her I requested her, please can I simply speak to my son? She ignored me.”

He additionally reportedly appeared straight at Lucas, saying, ” what you might be.”

“I will by no means see my son once more,” he mentioned. “Jayden’s household won’t ever see him once more … they do not have a second probability.”

The choose, in the meantime, reportedly mentioned he could not “think about the sheer horror these youngsters will need to have skilled seeing their mom with a gun. The sheer horror that second baby had as he heard the discharge of that weapon for the primary baby. And possibly even each of them seeing their mom pull the set off, taking their lives.”