No Prison For Woman Who Live-Streamed Mom's Slaying In San Rafael

SAN RAFAEL, CA — A Marin County jury found a San Rafael woman not guilty by reason of insanity Monday following a murder trial.

San Rafael Police Department officers said Tonantzyn Beltran, 30, stabbed her mother to death while she livestreamed the killing on Facebook.

On Jan. 8, 2024, Tonantzyn was found with her clothes soaked in blood standing on their Terra Linda balcony next to her mother 55-year-old Olivia Beltran Pacheco, who had multiple stab wounds, police said.

Several people had called 911 after reportedly seeing Tonantzyn stab her mother to death on Facebook Live.

Hours before the killing, Tonantzyn had created a TikTok video showing the mother and daughter at a Santa Rosa Police Station talking with an officer about an impounded car. Tonantzyn said in the video that she was throwing a "lit" party.

Supporters with Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice said she was in the throes of a severe psychiatric episode when she killed her mother and that she had been released from a hospital the day before the killing.

Jurors deliberated for three hours before finding Tonantzyn not guilty by reason of insanity, prosecutors said.

Tonantzyn will not go to prison but will instead be sent to a locked, state-run psychiatric hospital for the rest of her life unless she is deemed not to pose a risk to public safety, according to the Marin County District Attorney's Office.