Overview
- Paramedics discovered the two toddlers unresponsive at a Hyde Park home and were pronounced dead after first responders were called to the South Victoria Avenue residence, which the LAPD says occurred on Monday.
- The boys were identified by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner as Atlas and Sebastian Carbajal and autopsies on both children have been completed.
- The medical examiner is withholding cause and manner of death while it awaits toxicology results that officials say are needed to reach a determination.
- Multiple unnamed law-enforcement sources have suggested fentanyl could be involved but that possibility remains unconfirmed and family members interviewed by detectives were released.
- The LAPD is asking anyone with information to contact its Juvenile Division at 213-486-0570 and the pending toxicology results could shape both the criminal inquiry and local public-health responses to suspected pediatric drug exposure.