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Two Toddlers Found Dead in South Los Angeles Home in Suspected Overdose

Toxicology tests will determine whether drugs caused the deaths.

Overview

  • Paramedics responding to a medical emergency discovered the two boys unresponsive at a Hyde Park home on South Victoria Avenue near Crenshaw Boulevard early Monday, and officers were called to the scene.
  • The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the children as Atlas and Sebastian Carbajal and completed autopsies but has withheld reports pending lab results.
  • Toxicology testing remains pending and officials have not released an official cause or manner of death while investigators continue their probe.
  • Multiple law enforcement sources and reporters have indicated fentanyl may be involved but that possibility is unconfirmed, and detectives interviewed family members before releasing them.
  • The LAPD Juvenile Division is asking anyone with information to call 213-486-0570 and the outcome of the tests could affect public-health and safety responses around accidental fentanyl exposure to children.