UPDATE - 7:00 a.m. Thursday
A Palm Desert father is accused of throwing his 1-year-old daughter "over a steep cliff into a ravine" off Highway 74 after a rollover crash on Wednesday, deputies tell News Channel 3. The child was found dead on the scene.
Deputies have identified Adam Slater, 49, of Palm Desert, as a suspect involved in both a domestic violence in Indian Wells and the death of the baby.
The investigation started at 8:30 Thursday morning, when deputies from the Palm Desert Sheriff's station responded to a reported stabbing on Washington Street in Indian Wells. According to a release, investigators "found a female victim with multiple injuries caused in a domestic violence incident. The female victim was transported to a local hospital and is in stable condition."
"He was being combative," the victim's uncle Chris Grome told News Channel 3's Jake Ingrassia. "He attacked her and tried to stab her several times in the stomach and the throat. She fought him off and tried to protect herself." Grome says the victim and suspect are married, and his niece is 6 months pregnant with her second child.
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"Right now, it’s painful... Painful," said Grome. "Everybody’s hurting pretty bad."
Deputies investigating at the church parking lot on Washington Street identified Slater as the suspect in the attack. Just about a half hour later, Slater's vehicle overturned near Vista Point on Highway 74, investigators say.
"Witnesses went to the aid of the occupants of the overturned vehicle several hundred feet from the roadway," the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. "The driver then ran to the passenger side of the vehicle, where he stabbed a male who had assisted getting a young girl from the vehicle. The suspect then took the girl from the arms of the male he stabbed. Multiple witnesses saw the suspect take the child and throw her over a steep cliff into a ravine. The suspect then fled on foot into the canyon."
Slater was detained after a short foot chase. The child was located, but found dead.
Family has identified the child to News Channel 3 as "a little joy" named Maddie.
Slater was transported to a local hospital for injuries from the collision. A bystander was also treated for injuries after assisting in the effort to detain Slater.
The Sheriffs Department Central Homicide Unit is now continuing the investigation. Deputies say Slater will be arrested and booked for murder upon his release from the hospital.
UPDATE - 8:50 p.m.
Family has identified the woman who they say was stabbed outside Southwest Church in Indian Wells. The family also confirmed the child found dead near a crash on Highway 74 was the woman's one-year-old daughter.
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Original story - 1 p.m.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department confirmed to KESQ Wednesday morning that a crime scene in the area of Highway 74 and Mile Marker 86 south of Palm Desert was connected to another crime site at Southwest Church in Indian Wells.
According to Sgt. Deanna Pecoraro, deputies were called to Southwest Church at around 8:30 a.m. and located a woman with injuries. During the investigation, deputies learned that a man had left the church parking lot in a vehicle.
Authorities wrote on social media that while no suspect was outstanding, they were asking the public to stay away from the Highway 74 area in Palm Desert. The sheriff's department also tweeted that there was no current threat to the public.
Sgt. Pecoraro later confirmed that this was related to a rollover crash on Highway 74. Pecoraro confirmed authorities located a deceased child near the site of the crash. A man was also detained.
Pecoraro could not confirm whether it was the suspect vehicle.
Highway 74 going up the mountain near Bighorn Golf Club was closed to traffic. Sheriff's deputies were allowing traffic down the mountain at the time to pass through, however, Caltrans shut down the entire roadway due to the investigation.
By 1:45 p.m., the CHP confirmed Highway 74 was back open with Caltrans providing pilot cars.
The investigation is currently on-going and no further information will be released at this time, according to the Sheriffs Department. If anyone has information regarding this investigation, they are encouraged to call Investigator Munoz with the Central Homicide Unit at 951-955-2777.
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