A woman was taken into custody Tuesday on suspicion of fatally injuring her infant child inside a Santa Monica apartment.
Santa Monica police said officers were notified shortly before 11:55 a.m. Tuesday that UCLA Police had detained a woman on campus after she made statements indicating she had harmed her child and left the infant inside an apartment in the 2000 block of Broadway.
Officers went to the apartment responded to the residence and located an infant inside the apartment with significant injuries, police said. The nature of the injuries were not revealed, nor were the age or gender of the child.
Santa Monica Fire Department paramedics took the child to a hospital, where the infant was pronounced dead.
Police arrested the woman in connection with the child’s death and booked her at the Santa Monica Jail. Her name was also withheld by authorities.
The cause and manner of death will be determined by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.
Police said the killing appeared to be isolated and there is no ongoing threat to the community.