Authorities released details about a grisly murder-suicide in Los Angeles in which a woman stabbed her longtime boyfriend to death and pushed her 8-month-old baby onto a freeway before killing herself.
The investigation started after Los Angeles police found a 9-year-old girl sitting next to the body of her baby sister on the shoulder of the 405 Freeway around 4:30 a.m. on Monday, according to multiple local reports.
Police located the body of the children’s mother, Danielle Johnson, 34, about 15 miles away. They determined she crashed into a tree and killed herself.
Investigators learned that earlier that night, she murdered her partner 29-year-old Jaelen Allen Chaney at their apartment. Chaney’s body was found later that morning by a neighbor who saw blood seeping from the apartment.
“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 walls,” the neighbor said, according to KTLA.
“Called the police and told them that something was not right,” he recalled. “And they told me, when I spoke to the EMT, to go in and check on the body. So I did. And he was deceased, he was facedown on the floor. And there was a lot of blood.”
In the moments that led up to Chaney’s death, police say Johnson and Chaney were heard arguing at 3:40 a.m. before Johnson stabbed Chaney and fled the home with her two kids. The knife Johnson allegedly used was found inside the apartment.
Witnesses saw Johnson’s Porsche SUV on the freeway and caught her pushing her two kids out of the car while it was still in motion.
“The suspect slowed the vehicle and opened the passenger door for her daughter and told her to get out of the car,” LAPD Lt. Guy Golan told ABC7. “When the daughter didn’t do that, she forcibly pushed her out of the vehicle in the middle of the freeway while moving.”
Golan said the…
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