The father of a child who died after being found unresponsive in a vehicle in the unincorporated View Park community near South Los Angeles was facing possible involuntary manslaughter charges Wednesday.
Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Marina del Rey Station responded about 3:10 p.m. Tuesday to the 300 block of Chanson Drive, north of Slauson Avenue and east of Crenshaw Boulevard, after receiving a report of a child not breathing, officials said.
“Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel also responded and pronounced the child deceased at the scene,” according to a sheriff’s department statement.
The child was identified Wednesday by the county Medical Examiner as 1-year-old Maeve Blankeley-Johnson.
Edwin Johnson of View Park was arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter and child neglect, the sheriff’s department reported.
According to online jail records, the 40-year-old was released on bond after posting $25,000 bail. He is due to appear at the Airport Courthouse on Thursday.
The Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau and Marina del Rey Station detectives were continuing to investigate.
Anyone with information about the child’s death was urged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.