Mr Fleming said that daughter called him on Saturday afternoon just hours before children were killed, talk about problems in her relationship with Mr Canada.
“She said he was choking her, sucking the water out of her,” Fleming, 52, said by phone from his home. home in Pennsylvania. “I told her, ‘It’s time for you take a break from each other and see how you feel.'”
He said that Ms. Fleming and Mr. Canada lived together. in apartment, but became homeless and went into family shelter system. Mr. Fleming said he heard from his sister that Ms. Fleming was suffering from postpartum depression.
He said that Miss Fleming mother planned to take children for some time to change Miss Fleming of a little of pressure. Recently Mr. Fleming said that his daughter started working as a UPS driver. She had also said he, become obsessed with religion.
Charlotte Obiri, 47, a neighbor, said on Saturday she knew Ms Fleming in the neighborhood and saw her frequently. with her children and them father on in street, in in store and in nearby Echo Park. Miss Obiri was clearly in shock when she described how two boys were brought down.
“They brought baby out and they worked on him – and then the boy, they brought him out on gurney and he looked lifeless,” she said. “He was naked and looked lifeless. I still see the picture in my head”.
Ms. Obiri and the other neighbors struggled to digest the horrific scene and fact that children’s mother was in guarded.
“I feel bad,” Ms. Obiri said. “I was throwing up”.
Liset Cruz as well as Vimal Patel made a report. Susan S. Beachy contributed research.