Authorities launched particulars a few grisly murder-suicide in Los Angeles wherein a lady stabbed her longtime boyfriend to dying and pushed her 8-month-old child onto a freeway earlier than killing herself.
The investigation began after Los Angeles police discovered a 9-year-old lady sitting subsequent to the physique of her child sister on the shoulder of the 405 Freeway round 4:30 a.m. on Monday, based on a number of native studies.
Police situated the physique of the youngsters’s mom, Danielle Johnson, 34, about 15 miles away. They decided she crashed right into a tree and killed herself.
Investigators realized that earlier that night time, she murdered her accomplice 29-year-old Jaelen Allen Chaney at their house. Chaney’s physique was discovered later that morning by a neighbor who noticed blood seeping from the house.
“Their door was vast open, there was blood on the ground main into their house, after which a path of it within the hallway main as much as the elevator, and I noticed some blood on the partitions,” the neighbor stated, based on KTLA.
“Known as the police and advised them that one thing was not proper,” he recalled. “And so they advised me, after I spoke to the EMT, to go in and examine on the physique. So I did. And he was deceased, he was facedown on the ground. And there was a whole lot of blood.”
Within the moments that led as much as Chaney’s dying, police say Johnson and Chaney had been heard arguing at 3:40 a.m. earlier than Johnson stabbed Chaney and fled the house together with her two children. The knife Johnson allegedly used was discovered contained in the house.
Witnesses noticed Johnson’s Porsche SUV on the freeway and caught her pushing her two children out of the automotive whereas it was nonetheless in movement.
“The suspect slowed the automobile and opened the passenger door for her daughter and advised her to get out of the automotive,” LAPD Lt. Man Golan advised ABC7. “When the daughter didn’t try this, she forcibly pushed her out of the automobile in the midst of the freeway whereas transferring.”
Golan stated the 9-year-old was holding her sister as they had been thrown out of the automotive however misplaced her grip through the fall. The child died after being struck by one other automobile. Medics transported the older sister to the hospital with reasonable accidents. She’s now within the care of the Los Angeles County Division of Kids and Household Companies.
Afterward, Johnson drove her automotive to Redondo Seaside and crashed right into a tree at Pacific Coast Freeway and Vincent Road at speeds over 100 mph. Investigators are nonetheless working to find out the motive for the murder-suicide.
Johnson and Chaney had been courting for about three years, and dwelling collectively for greater than a 12 months with the 2 kids in an house in Woodland Hills. Detectives say Chaney was nonetheless married to a different individual and going by way of a divorce. He was not the 9-year-old youngster’s organic father and it’s unclear at the moment if he was the daddy of the child who died.
“We actually don’t know why this incident escalated to such violence,” Golan stated. “Trying on the historical past between the sufferer and suspect, they’ve been courting for a couple of years, however there’s no prior incidents of home violence reported between the 2.”
Chaney’s brother, Matthew Chiricas, stated his brother and Johnson traveled round Europe whereas he was stationed in Italy. Chiricas recalled one regarding textual content message from November 2022 wherein Chaney shared he had been coping with rather a lot along with his girlfriend, however didn’t go into particulars as a result of it wasn’t “applicable.”
“He was within the Air Pressure, however he had desires to turn out to be a weatherman,” Chiricas advised the Day by day Mail. “He was identical to the remainder of us, making an attempt to have enjoyable and making an attempt to have a household.”
Johnson, who goes by the title Daniella Ayoka on-line, identifies as an astrologer and licensed reiki grasp instructor, “who can be educated in over 10 completely different various therapeutic modalities,” based on her web site.
Reiki is a Japanese therapeutic approach used for stress discount and rest that includes “laying on arms” to regulate unseen “life power vitality.”
Social media posts from Johnson’s X web page revealed alarming particulars concerning the girl’s way of thinking within the days main as much as the murder-suicide.
Johnson expressed robust opinions concerning the partial photo voltaic eclipse that befell Monday, April 8, the identical day she took her boyfriend and toddler’s life.
This eclipse is the epitome of religious warfare. Get your safety on and your coronary heart in the appropriate place.
The world could be very clearly altering proper now and if you happen to ever wanted to choose a facet, the time to do proper in your life is now. Keep robust you bought this 🩵
— Ayoka (@MysticxLipstick) April 4, 2024
“This eclipse is the epitome of religious warfare. Get your safety on and your coronary heart in the appropriate place,” Johnson wrote in April 4 put up on X, the place she has over 100,000 followers. “The world could be very clearly altering proper now and if you happen to ever wanted to choose a facet, the time to do proper in your life is now. Keep robust you bought this.”
She additionally pinned a put up on her X web page alleging “the apocalypse is right here.” Her final X put up was a retweet from the web page @QTHESTORMM, which says: Alert: That is the ultimate warning. Flip notifications on. Don’t have a look at the eclipse. One thing massive is coming.”
