On November 8, 2023, 9-year-old Jayden Lucas was found with gunshot injuries inside his family home on Bentwood Drive in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. His 6-year-old brother, Maurice Baker Jr., was also found wounded; both boys were taken to a children’s hospital and died of their injuries. A neighbor reported seeing the boys’ mother, Tiffanie Lucas, collapse in the driveway and telling them her children were dying.

Witnesses at the scene told police that Tiffanie Lucas had shot the children. She was arrested the same day and charged with two counts of murder. Early in the case she gave conflicting explanations, at times calling the shootings accidental and at other times describing delusions and claiming manipulation through Facebook, the internet, and Wi-Fi. Her defense initially prepared an insanity plea citing a psychotic episode allegedly related to opioid withdrawal, but later she entered an open guilty plea to two counts of murder and was sentenced to life in prison for each count.

Did anyone in the neighborhood notice signs of trouble in the family before November 8, 2023?