A California father is under arrest for murder after his baby daughter’s body was recovered from the Los Angeles River in Long Beach, police said Tuesday.
Inglewood police were contacted Sunday night about a missing child after a father picked up his two children from their mother in Long Beach and then showed up to his home in Inglewood with only one child.
The suspect’s mother contacted police because she was concerned about her 1-year-old granddaughter, Leilani Dream Burley.
Police investigated the missing child and found her body in the Los Angeles River below the Ocean Boulevard Bridge, a location which is close to where the river empties into the bay.
The father, identified as Jayveyon Burley, was arrested for murder and child endangerment and booked into the Inglewood jail.
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