LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Tiffanie Lucas, the Bullitt County mother accused of killing her two sons, will not appear in court to plead guilty on Thursday as originally expected.
Lucas has been in jail since last November, accused of shooting and killing her sons Maurice Baker Jr., 6, and Jayden Howard, 9.
She was scheduled for a hearing Thursday morning to change her plea, but the court date is being rescheduled. A new date has not yet been announced.
During a hearing Monday, her attorney Jonathon Villavicencio asked Judge Rodney Burress for a change-of-plea hearing.
Bullitt County Commonwealth's Attorney Bailey Taylor told reporters after Monday's motion that Lucas' counsel informed him she will plead guilty. There is no plea deal in the case, he said. Burress will decide her sentence.
Lucas was arrested in November 2023 and charged with murder. Police said a neighbor found her sons, Maurice Baker Jr., 6, and Jayden Howard, 9, shot inside the family's home on Bentwood Drive in Bullitt County. Both boys died from their injuries.
She had entered a not guilty plea and has remained in the Bullitt County Jail on a $2 million bond. Her murder trial was scheduled for December.
Bobbie Baker, the aunt of one of the boys killed, told reporters after Monday’s court appearance that she believes Lucas has been “coddled” and pushed back on Lucas’ claim to a detective that the shooting was accidental.
“It wasn't an accident,” Baker said. “One of the boys was shot twice. You don't shoot two little boys and call it an accident.”
Taylor, the prosecutor, said last December that the punishment for someone found guilty of capital murder could receive a sentence ranging from life in prison to the death penalty.
Baker said Monday that “there is no way in hell” that Lucas should get less than 25 years to life in prison.
“What I want is for her to wake up every day and not be able to leave out of those doors of that prison,” she said. “That will hurt her more than anything.”
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