Authorities Confirm Connection: Baby’s Death on Highway Related to Family’s Murder-Suicide, Investigation Continues

Debarylife – According to ABC News, authorities in Los Angeles have connected the death of an infant discovered on a highway on Monday to a potential murder-suicide.

A girl, eight months old, was discovered dead on the 405 Freeway early on Monday morning. The Los Angeles Police Department reports that a 9-year-old child was discovered on the shoulder, alive but with moderate injuries.

Shortly after, a woman in Redondo Beach, who the authorities recognized as the children’s mother, struck a tree with her automobile. According to the authorities, she was declared dead at the spot. Danielle Johnson, 34, was identified by police on Tuesday afternoon.

On Monday, the father was discovered dead in an apartment in Woodland Hills from what appeared to be stabbing wounds. On Tuesday, the police recognized him as 29-year-old Jaelen Chaney.

According to police, on Tuesday, the two “became involved in a verbal altercation that escalated into Johnson becoming violent and stabbing Chaney, who succumbed to his injuries at the scene” in the early hours of Monday morning.

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A knife was found at the scene along with biological evidence. In addition, the mother may have driven off with the two kids and crashed into a tree.

Authorities claimed that the two kids were “expelled” from the vehicle while it was in motion. It is still unclear if the infant passed away on the highway sooner or later.

Police claimed that the 9-year-old girl, who is thought to have witnessed the murder, was hospitalized for her injuries and is currently being held in safe care.

A fight was heard from the apartment the previous night, and when they looked around the next morning, they discovered blood, according to neighbors who spoke to Los Angeles ABC station KABC.

“Their door was wide open, there was blood on the floor leading into their apartment, and then a trail of it in the hallway leading up to the elevator and I saw some blood on the wall,” the lady, 26, told KABC.

According to her, the man was found dead inside the flat after the woman’s father contacted 911.

“He was deceased, he was facedown on the floor,” she replied. “And there was a lot of blood.”