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WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. -- Days earlier a woman stabbed her fellow to decease successful Southern California and pushed her children retired of a moving conveyance connected a freeway, Danielle Cherakiyah Johnson was posting connected societal media concerns astir the eclipse and the apocalypse.
Johnson was seemingly a fashionable astrology influencer with more than 100,000 followers connected X, Eyewitness News has learned. She went by @MysticxLipstick and described herself arsenic a "divine healer" and astrologer.
In a station days earlier the murder, she called Monday's eclipse "the epitome of spiritual warfare" and said, "If you ever needed to prime a side, the clip to bash close successful your beingness is now."
According to instrumentality enforcement sources who spoke with ABC News, a motive for the execution spree and termination remains unclear, but constabulary said they are looking astatine Johnson's societal media posts.
Investigators said they whitethorn ne'er truly cognize what prompted her to termination her spouse and child, but said they are interviewing her friends and household for much information.
Disturbing caller details
According to authorities, Johnson is suspected of fatally stabbing 29-year-old Jaelen Chaney, her live-in boyfriend, wrong the couple's Woodland Hills, California, flat aboriginal Monday morning. Her 9-year-old girl witnessed the homicide, sources told Eyewitness News.
She stabbed Chaney successful the thorax portion helium was connected the couch. According to the Los Angeles Times, she reportedly tried to resistance his bloody assemblage retired of the apartment, but astatine immoderate point, gave up and dragged the assemblage backmost into the flat kitchen, the paper reported.
She past fled with her 2 young daughters successful a dark-colored Porsche Cayenne. The parent and the 2 children were successful the SUV connected the 405 Freeway successful the Westchester country erstwhile Johnson slowed the moving vehicle, opened the rider doorway and past told her girl "to get retired of the car, and erstwhile the girl didn't bash that she past forcibly pushed her retired of the vehicle, successful the mediate of the freeway, portion moving, portion the 9-year-old was holding the 8-month-old baby," Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Guy Nolan said.
The babe fell to the pavement and was fatally struck by a passing vehicle, authorities said.
Good Samaritans recovered the children connected the freeway and called 911. Emergency responders pronounced the babe dormant astatine the scene, and her older sister was transported to a hospital. The surviving kid was aboriginal placed successful the custody of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.
After Johnson allegedly forced the children retired of the car, sources said she headed southbound to Redondo Beach, California, wherever she reached speeds of much than 100 mph. The SUV slammed into a histrion connected the country of an intersection and Johnson was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.
A 26-year-old woman, a neighbour of Chaney and Johnson who lives successful the aforesaid building, discovered a bloody scene. According to police, tarot cards were recovered successful the apartment.
"Their doorway was wide open, determination was humor connected the level starring into their apartment, and past a way of it successful the hallway starring up to the elevator, and I saw immoderate humor connected the walls," the pistillate said.
Her begetter "called the constabulary and told them that thing was not right. And they told me, erstwhile I spoke to the EMT, to spell successful and cheque connected the body. So I did," helium said, adding that Chaney "was deceased, helium was face-down connected the floor. And determination was a batch of blood."
Aftermath
The hunt for the motive successful the horrific incidents is ongoing.
"The lone witnesser we person for this transgression present is the 9-year-old girl," Nolan said. "There's conscionable precise small accusation we have, different than: determination was a verbal altercation that turned convulsive and it ended successful tragedy."
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