Jefferson City woman arrested after allegedly making threats to kill her children on TikTok
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Jefferson City woman was arrested on Saturday morning after authorities say she threatened to kill her two children while she was livestreaming on TikTok.
Elena Lujan, 30, was charged with child abuse. She is being held at the Cole County Jail without bond. An arraignment was scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday.
The probable cause statement says police were called to an apartment building before 2 a.m. Saturday after Lujan allegedly made multiple threats to beat and kill her two children while she was livestreaming on TikTok.
The Missouri Information Analysis Center provided law enforcement with a video in which Lujan seemed to make multiple threats, including “I will kill her, it won’t even be a beating, I’ll kill her and then you’ll be the reason why she’s dead,” according to the probable cause statement.
Lujan also was allegedly recorded saying the prospect of going to jail is what prevented her from hurting the children, the statement says.
Police went to the residence and found Lujan passed out in the children’s room and it took several minutes to wake her, the statement says. One of the children was asleep on the couch and another child was asleep in a bedroom, the statement says.
Police wrote that an open bottle of tequila was seen in the kitchen and broken glass was on the floor. Lujan allegedly spit at an officer and refused to provide a breath sample, court documents say.