Woman, Toddler Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
A Van Nuys woman shot and killed the 2-year-old daughter of her domestic partner and then fatally shot herself Friday afternoon, police said.
“It appears to be some kind of lovers’ quarrel,” said Sgt. Mike Long of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Van Nuys division.
Police were called by a neighbor to a condominium in the 13600 block of Valerio Street at about 5:30 p.m.
They found the bodies of the toddler and the 35-year-old woman, Long said.
The dead woman was “the live-in partner of the mother” of the little girl, he said.
Detectives were interviewing the distraught mother Friday night.
“The investigation is real preliminary,” Long said, adding that it was not clear if the mother was home at the time of the shootings.
He declined to release the names of the victims or the child’s mother.
A Los Angeles County coroner’s spokesman said investigators were still at the scene Friday night.
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