The mother, father and paternal grandmother of a young boy who was found dead inside a cooler in a Lynwood apartment last year were ordered Tuesday to be jailed without bail.
Destiny Luckie Harrison, 25; Daniel Alberto Monzon, 25; and Ana Carcamo Zarceno, 45, are now facing the special circumstance allegation of murder involving the infliction of torture in connection with the death of the boy, identified by prosecutors only as Isaiah H.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is expected to decide later whether to seek the death penalty against the three, who had been held in lieu of $2 million bail each since their arrests last Oct. 29.
Harrison, Monzon and Zarceno are each charged with murder, torture and child abuse resulting in death, with an allegation of willful harm resulting in death. Monzon and Zarceno are also charged with being an accessory after the fact.
The three are due back in a Compton courtroom May 11. A date is scheduled to be set then for a hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to allow the case against them to proceed to trial.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded Oct. 28 to the apartment in the 3100 block of Euclid Avenue, west of Peach Street, to conduct a welfare check requested by an unidentified resident who went to the sheriff’s station, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Nancy Veliz told City News Service.
Paramedics from the Los Angeles County Fire Department were called to the home and pronounced the boy — whom authorities now believe to be 8 years old — dead at the scene. It was not immediately clear how the child, who was originally believed to be 7 years old, died.
The criminal complaint alleged that the boy was tortured on or between April 1, 2024 and Oct. 24, 2025, and that he was abused and murdered on or between Oct. 23 and Oct. 24, 2025. The boy died early Oct. 24 as a result of his injuries, and was found days later “in a cooler filled with ice,” according to the District Attorney’s Office.
“The horrific abuse that Isaiah endured is made even worse by the fact that, as alleged, it was at the hands of the people who were meant to love and protect him,” District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement last year announcing the charges. “Our office is committed to ensuring that those responsible are held fully accountable for their actions and that justice will be secured for Isaiah.”
Authorities detained the boy’s mother, father and grandmother at the scene, where three additional children were also found. Those children — since described as being 16 years old, 14 years old and nine months old — were taken into protective custody by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.