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LOS ANGELES – The death of an infant who was found on the northbound 405 Freeway in Culver City Monday morning is tied to a homicide and fatal car crash, sources told FOX 11.
Officers were sent to the Sepulveda Boulevard/Howard Hughes Parkway exit of the northbound freeway around 4:30 a.m. after a driver discovered two children on the freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol.
During a news conference late Monday morning, CHP officials said they discovered two girls at the scene: an infant, believed to be 5 or 6 months old, in the roadway and a 9-year-old girl on the right shoulder.
The infant died on the freeway and the other girl was hospitalized with minor injuries.
It’s believed this incident is related to a murder in Woodland Hills and a fatal car crash in Redondo Beach.
Reports indicate that a woman in her mid-30s fatally stabbed her partner at the Montecito apartment complex around 3:30 a.m. She then fled with the children in a black Porsche.
A neighbor found the man’s body after hearing loud sounds and fighting.
“I walked out our front for and looked to the left, their door was wide open and there was blood all throughout their front door, all the way to the hallway, into the elevator ad blood on the walls so I called my dad,” the neighbor told FOX 11. “I went into the apartment, I stepped over the blood puddles and checked on the body and I saw he was dead. Called 911 of course.”
Neighbors say they’ve heard fighting before between the couple.
As for the second crime scene… detectives are trying to determine just how the children got on the freeway — and whether they fell out of the car or were pushed out.
It appears the woman kept driving on the 405 after the girls were ejected from the car. According to sources, the girls’ mother died when the vehicle crashed into a tree near a church around 5 a.m. on Pacific Coast Highway near Vincent Street.
In efforts to gather more information, CHP emphasized the importance of dashcam footage from vehicles in the area around 4 or 5 a.m. along the 405 between Howard Hughes and Centinela.
“Even though I do this every day, this definitely hits home. It hits different when it’s a kid who didn’t really have a chance, especially an infant, a baby that’s really helpless, and just to see this is very traumatic,” Officer Steven Salas with California Highway Patrol said.
The 9-year-old girl is now the sole survivor in her family after these three tragic events.
Anyone with information on the case is urged to call the CHP Southern Division Major Crimes office at 323-644-9550, or the CHP Traffic Management Center at 323-259-3200.
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