The murder-suicide involving a popular social media astrology influencer and her family is drawing attention to Black women and mental health awareness.
Authorities, who are still working on the ongoing investigation, say on April 8, Danielle Johnson allegedly stabbed her boyfriend Jaelen Allen Chaney to death before pushing her children out of a moving car onto a highway, leaving a baby dead and a 9-year-old girl as the family’s only survivor.
The horrific incident took place at the couple’s Woodland Hills apartment.
According to reports, the couple began arguing in the middle of the night. Police believe Johnson stabbed Chaney, then left her residence with her two young daughters. Investigators believe Johnson then took the two children to the 405 Freeway in Westchester, opened the passenger door and told her daughter to “get out of the car,” Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Guy Nolan told ABC 7. “When the daughter didn’t do that she then forcibly pushed her out of the vehicle, in the middle of the freeway, while moving, while the 9-year-old was holding the 8-month-old baby,” he said.
The infant was fatally struck by a passing vehicle, but the 9-year-old miraculously survived.
Onlookers were eventually able to get the 9-year-old to safety until police could arrive and transport her to a hospital.
After Johnson put her children out on the highway, authorities believe she headed south to Redondo Beach at speeds over 100mph, where she crashed her SUV into a tree and was pronounced dead at the scene.
A neighbor, who discovered the bloody crime scene, says she saw blood everywhere in 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 woman told ABC 7.
Authorities say the investigation is…
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