Police arrest father after one-year-old girl's body found in Los Angeles river
"My daughter was murdered by her father," a heartbroken mother says as Inglewood officers arrest suspect.
Wednesday 7 December 2022 15:45, UK
A man has been arrested for the murder and child endangerment of a one-year-old in California.
The girl's body was recovered in the Los Angeles river in Long Beach.
Inglewood police were called on Sunday evening to the home of a missing girl, now identified as Leilani Dream Burley.
The child's grandmother called police shortly after Jayveyon Burley, 22 - the father - returned home with only one of his two children, after picking them up from their mother in Long Beach, Officers said.
The three-year-old boy was unharmed.
Burley was arrested and taken into Inglewood Police Department jail and is due in court this week.
In an interview with ABC7 Eyewitness News, the mother Lynisha Hull said: "My daughter was murdered by her father."
"He threw her off the bridge," she said.
"He came to my home to pick up my kids. He was angry at the time but normal though. He was normal. He didn't look like he was panicked at the time at all," she added.
Leilani was "full of life, and she was so beautiful and loved", Ms Hull told NBCLA.
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During the course of the investigation, Leilani's remains were "recovered in the Los Angeles River below the Ocean Boulevard Bridge" at the river's southern end in Long Beach, Inglewood police said in a release.
Anyone with further information about this Homicide has been asked to contact Inglewood Police Department Homicide Detectives.