"The day before the stabbing, Tnantzyn had been hospitalized at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital after police intervened in a mental health crisis. Despite her family's pleas for the medical center to keep her on a mandatory 72-hour hold, Tonatiuh said, clinicians discharged her. On Jan. 8, 2024, San Rafael police responded to reports of a physical fight and stabbing at Olivia's apartment just before 5 p.m. When they arrived, they found Beltran standing over her mother, holding a knife."
""The district attorney's office is moving forward with a criminal trial despite our wishes for my sister to be hospitalized," she continued. "It feels like another tragedy, on top of what we have already had to survive." Beltran said her sister had previously been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity last September, but after multiple mental health evaluations, she was declared fit to stand trial this spring."
San Rafael police responded to a reported fight and found a woman stabbed and her sister standing over her with a knife. Fire officials transported the victim to a hospital, where she died within hours. The day before the killing, the sister had been hospitalized after a police mental-health intervention and was discharged despite family pleas for a mandatory 72-hour hold. Family members say clinicians dismissed their requests and want treatment and hospitalization rather than criminalization. The sister pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, underwent multiple evaluations, and was declared fit to stand trial while the district attorney moves forward.
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