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An Inglewood father is under arrest for the murder of his one-year-old daughter, after the body of the little girl was recovered from the Los Angeles River in Long Beach, police said Tuesday.
Inglewood police were contacted Sunday night about the disappearance of a girl, after a father picked up his two children from their mother in Long Beach and then showed up at his home in Inglewood with one child.
The suspect’s mother contacted the police because she was concerned about her 1-year-old granddaughter, Leilani Dream Burley.
The police investigated the missing girl and found her body in the Los Angeles River under the Ocean Boulevard Bridge, a place that is close to where the river empties into the bay.
The father, identified as Jayveyon Burley, aged 27, was arrested for murder and child endangerment and was booked into Inglewood Jail.
“My daughter was murdered by her father,” Lynisha Hull told Eyewitness News. “He threw her off the bridge”.
Hull said Burley normally picks up his two children on Sunday nights and returns them to him on Wednesdays. He did nothing to foreshadow what he was later accused of doing.
“He came to my house to pick up my children,” he said. “I was angry at the time, but it was normal. It was normal. It didn’t look like he had panicked at the time.”
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