A mother was arrested Saturday after her three young children, including a 6-month-old baby, were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles apartment, police and local reports said.
Liliana Carrillo, 30, was arrested in Tulare County, about 200 miles north of LA, hours after her children’s bodies were discovered by their grandmother, according to police.
The children were 3, 2 and 6 months old, according to KNBC.
Their grandmother had just returned from work around 09:30 local time when she made the horrific find – and realized Carrillo was missing.
Police received reports that the mother was driving her on Interstate 5 north – when she was fighting in the Baskerville area, Lieutenant Raul Jovel, Los Angeles police, told the Associated Press.
Jovel abandoned her vehicle and cut a silver Toyota pickup truck with a car.
“She committed a heinous crime here and was followed by another crime north of here, and that is the behavior that eventually caught her,” Lieutenant Ben Fernandes told KABC-TV.
Cops said Carrillo is the “only suspect” in the homicide.
Investigators were still working on a motive.