An American astrologer obsessed with the eclipse that occurred Monday over the United States stabbed her partner to death and threw her two daughters from her moving car on the highway, a few hours before the celestial phenomenon, according to the Los Angeles Times .
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Found dead shortly after in her vehicle, Danielle Johnson presented herself as a “divine healer” and offered “aura purifications” online, as well as readings of the signs of the zodiac. On social media, she called herself Ayoka.
Last week, this influencer published a message on “The apocalypse is here,” she assured in another publication.
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Monday morning, a few hours before the eclipse, she killed her partner, a 29-year-old ex-soldier, with a knife by stabbing him in the heart, according to the Los Angeles Times.
She left bloody footprints in their Los Angeles apartment, before fleeing in her Porsche Cayenne with her two daughters, according to the first elements of the investigation reported by the daily. Speeding down a city highway, she pushed her children out of the car.
The eldest, aged nine, survived. But his little sister, an eight-month-old infant, was found dead.
Police later found the vehicle, which crashed at 160 km/h into a tree along a coastal road. Ms. Johnson’s body was severely mutilated and was difficult to identify, according to the newspaper.
Eclipses have long been associated with strange end-times prophecies, which scientists say have no basis.
Millions of people admired a rare total eclipse on Monday, which crossed North America, revealing a black sun, obstructed by the moon.
The phenomenon was visible from the Pacific coast of Mexico to eastern Canada, including Texas, Arkansas, Niagara Falls and New England.
This phenomenon was not observable from Los Angeles, which had to make do with a partial eclipse.
