An astrology influencer allegedly went on a murder spree, stabbing her boyfriend and shoving her children from a moving automobile before committing suicide by slamming her vehicle into a tree.
Danielle Johnson, 34, went on a violent rampage in Los Angeles on April 8, the same day that a rare total solar eclipse caused areas of the United States to go black.
Johnson used social media to express her view that the solar eclipse will be the “epitome of spiritual warfare” in the days leading up to the attack.
The astrology influencer known as “Ayoka” has over 100,000 followers and frequently republishes conspiracy theories and antisemitic sentiments on her platform.
Prior to Monday’s outburst, she had posted posts on X asking people to “wake up; the apocalypse is here” and warning her followers to “pick a side.”.
Police said she embarked on a killing spree on Monday morning, hours before the eclipse.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, Johnson and her live-in partner, Jaelen Chaney, 29, had a verbal altercation at their house in the 6200 block of Variel Avenue at 3.40 a.m. on Monday.
The fight turned violent when Johnson stabbed Chaney to death.
Johnson then allegedly took her two small children, aged nine and eight months, and fled the scene in a dark-colored Porsche SUV.
We spotted the Porsche traveling down the 405 Freeway, near Howard Hughes Parkway.
The moving car flung the two toddlers off at roughly 4.30 a.m.
The nine-year-old survived, but he suffered moderate injuries from the incident.
Oncoming vehicles struck the eight-month-old in the center of the road, killing him instantly, according to LAPD Lt. Guy Golan.
“As the 9-year-old fell into the middle of the freeway, she injured herself and dropped the infant,” she went on to say.
The nine-year-old managed to reach the shoulder in a last-ditch attempt to escape the freeway, but vehicles struck her. And so the infant died from her injuries in the middle of the freeway.”
Johnson then continued driving, reaching speeds of more than 100 mph before colliding with a tree near Redondo Beach around 5 a.m.
Johnson died of her injuries.
The nine-year-old is now the sole survivor of their mother’s horrible murder spree.
Chaney’s body was discovered at the couple’s home a few hours later, around 7.35 a.m., after neighbors noted the front door was open.
Police claimed a neighbor walked in to check on the family and discovered Chaney dead in the apartment.
A neighbor informed ABC7 that she discovered the horrible scene after noticing a trail of blood heading to Johnson’s house.
“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,” a neighbor who declined to be named said.
The police have yet to determine what motivated Johnson to carry out the deadly spree.
Mr. Golan told The Associated Press that, while detectives had investigated her social media activities, they did not believe the eclipse played a role “because we just don’t know why she did what she did.”.
“We’ve taken all the facts we can, but without being able to interview her and without having something more tangible than a post on X, I don’t know how much weight you can give to somebody (saying) there’s an apocalypse and attribute it to one of the most horrific murders we’ve had in LA,” he went on to say.
LAPD investigators stated that Chaney and Johnson had been dating for around three years and were living together, with Mr. Golan adding that no previous incidents of domestic violence had been reported between the couple, according to CBS.
