LANCASTER, Calif.—A father who was detained after deputies sent to a residence in Lancaster discovered four of his children injured—two of them fatally—has been formally arrested on suspicion of murder and child abuse, sheriff’s officials said Oct. 30.
Deputies were dispatched at about 11:50 p.m. Saturday to a home in the 1800 block of East Avenue J-2 on a child abuse call, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported.