A woman stabbed her partner to death in a Los Angeles apartment on Monday and then threw her two children from a moving SUV onto a highway, killing her infant daughter, authorities said. . upcoming solar eclipse “The epitome of spiritual warfare,” said an online post from a few days ago.

Los Angeles police believe Danielle Cherakiyah Johnson, 34, an astrology influencer and recording artist nicknamed “Ayoka,” posted on X that the violence occurred during the Southern California eclipse Hours before peaking. Guy Golan.

Golan told The Associated Press on Wednesday that while detectives reviewed Johnson’s posts, police do not believe the eclipse was a contributing or contributing factor to the killing “because we just don’t know why she did it.”

“We’ve got all the facts we can, but without being able to interview her or anything more specific than a post on One of the most horrific murders in history,” said Golan, the head of the homicide unit investigating the case.

Authorities said Johnson and her partner, Jaelen Allen Chaney, 29, died around 3:40 a.m. Monday in Woodland Hills, about 25 miles (42 kilometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles. There was an argument in the apartment. Johnson stabbed Chaney and then fled in a Porsche Cayenne with her children, an 8-month-old girl and her 9-year-old sister.

Johnson then drove along Interstate 405 in Culver City and threw her daughter from the moving SUV, police said. The baby was pronounced dead on the road, but the eldest daughter, who witnessed the stabbing, survived with moderate injuries.

Johnson drove southwest toward Redondo Beach, where a half-hour later she hit a tree while traveling at speeds of 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour). The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating whether the separate crash was an apparent suicide.

The Los Angeles Times first reported Johnson’s social media activity related to the killings.

“Be protected and keep your heart in the right place,” she posted to her more than 105,000 followers on It’s time to take the right action.” It’s now in your life. Stay strong, you got this. “

On April 5, she posted in capital letters: “Wake up, the end of the world is coming. Anyone with ears will hear. Now is the time for you to choose your own beliefs.”

Her social media also includes anti-Semitic tirades, conspiracy theories about vaccines, warnings about the end of the world, and astrological predictions and positive affirmations. Also on April 5, she tweeted the word “LOVE” dozens of times. Her personal website offers a variety of services, including “Zodiac Healing Work,” “Alcohol Balancing System,” and “Aura Cleansing.”

Johnson’s internet presence and online following goes back several years. Music magazine The Fader interviewed her in 2016 as an astrology celebrity.

“She was very standoffish,” said Norman Lind, a neighbor in Woodland Hills. He had only seen Johnson and her daughters a few times before at the apartment complex.

Another neighbor, Anita Mazer, told The Associated Press that when she saw the family, “I just said ‘hello.’ The baby was really cute,” she said Wednesday. “It’s so terrible. “

Golan said that before Monday’s homicide, neighbors saw the door open and called 911 but did not ask police to respond to the couple’s apartment. Johnson has no felony criminal record in California and there were no reports of domestic violence.

Detectives did not immediately connect the Woodland Hills homicides to the daughters, Golan said. He was near the San Fernando Valley when he started getting push alerts on his phone from news organizations about infant deaths on Culver City roads. Investigators realize two missing children from the family’s apartment may be connected to the tragedy on the interstate.

“I was like, ‘Oh, there are two young girls stranded on the 405.’ It’s so random and scary to hear something like that. We knew there were two young kids,” Golan continued. “We are setting an AMBER Alert.”

Golan said detectives found candles and cards inside the apartment, but he wasn’t sure if they were tarot cards.

“They don’t look like the standard cards you play poker with,” he said.

The path of the total solar eclipse stretched from Mazatlan, Mexico, to Newfoundland, Canada, and was approximately 115 miles (185 kilometers) wide. Revelers in state parks, city rooftops and small towns were engulfed in darkness as the moon obscured the sun, but Southern California saw only a partial eclipse, with its peak at 11.12am.

Globally, the celestial event sparked fears of the end of the world and other doubts rooted in religion and spirituality. But Golan noted that others who posted eclipse-related concerns online did not engage in violence as Johnson did.

“How many people wrote about this,” he said, “but didn’t go out and kill people?”