LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police are holding a man they say stabbed to death his 13-month-old daughter, then fled his burning apartment with a knife stuck in his chest.
Authorities say the man apparently stabbed the girl Friday afternoon in a North Hollywood apartment, set the apartment on fire and jumped out of a second-story window.
Police say he may have used methamphetamine.
The girl’s mother took her to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead
Authorities say an officer answering an assault with a deadly weapon report found the man in an alley. He was on fire and had a steak knife in his chest.
Officer Drake Madison says he was taken to a hospital in critical condition. There’s no update on his condition.
The apartment fire was quickly doused.
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