Los Angeles County authorities are looking into a possible murder-suicide following the discovery of three bodies at separate locations.
According to Eyewitness News, investigators believe a woman may have killed her husband before taking her own life and that of their baby.
The man, identified as 29-year-old Jaelen Chaney, was found dead in Woodland Hills.
Neighbors reported hearing a loud argument from his apartment complex the night before.
A resident of a nearby building said she witnessed a bloody scene at the location on Monday morning.
“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,” she said.
Her father called 911.
“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.”
Authorities believe the woman drove away from the scene of the fatal stabbing with the couple’s two daughters, a 6-month-old baby and a 9-year-old, damaging the apartment gate in the process.
Somehow the 6-month-old and 9-year-old ended up on the 405 Freeway in the Westchester area around 4:30 a.m.
Drivers who discovered the children called 911.
The infant was declared dead on the scene.
The older girl, the sole survivor, was transported to a hospital.