A woman and her boyfriend have been arrested after her 7-year-old daughter fell to her death from a moving car Saturday on the 5 Freeway in Newhall.
A woman and her boyfriend were arrested in connection with the death of the woman’s 7-year-old daughter after she fell out of a moving car on the 5 Freeway in Newhall, authorities told City News Service.
Veronda Gladney, 28, of Lancaster was driving northbound on the freeway near Weldon Canyon Road around 3:40 a.m. when her daughter, Tanuneka Starnes, fell out the window of a 1999 Lincoln Navigator, City News Service reported. Gladney’s boyfriend, Michael Branch, 39, of Hawthorne, was also a passenger in the car, the wire service reported.
The California Highway Patrol said in a statement that officers found the girl’s body after receiving a report of an unknown object in the road. It had been struck by multiple vehicles, according to the statement.
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