A series of gruesome incidents began on Wednesday morning when Slater met with a woman in a parking lot. The woman was not identified by police, but local station News Channel 3 reports that the woman was Slater's wife, Ashley Grome, 23.
Ashley was reportedly found in an Indian Wells church parking lot with multiple stab wounds after officers were dispatched to respond to a stabbing report around 8:30 a.m. She was taken to a hospital and is expected to recover, the sheriff's office said.© Provided by People courtesy Ashley Grome and daughter
Thirty minutes later around 9 a.m., California Highway Patrol dispatch received a report of a collision about 15 miles away, off Highway 74 in the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains scenic area. The description of the vehicle, which was overturned, matched the description of the suspect's car from the stabbing earlier that morning, the sheriff's office said.
As witnesses rushed to help the people involved in the crash, the driver allegedly ran to the other side of the car and stabbed a male bystander, who had been trying to help remove a baby girl from the overturned car.
Slater then took the baby, identified as his daughter, and proceeded to "throw her over a steep cliff into a ravine," according to multiple witnesses, the sheriff's office said. He then went down into the canyon on foot.
When deputies arrived, they apprehended Slater after a short foot pursuit. They also found the baby girl, who was pronounced dead on the scene.
Slater was taken to a hospital for treatment to his injuries from the crash and "will be arrested and booked for murder upon his release," the sheriff's office said. It was not immediately clear if Slater has legal representation.
Ashley, who is currently 6 months pregnant, has set up a GoFundMe campaign to help with funeral expenses for her 1-year-old daughter Madalyn.
"I am the mother of Madalyn Payton Slater, the one-year-old baby girl who was killed on May 6, 2020 by her father when he drove off of Highway 74 after beating and stabbing me, then leaving me to die in the Southwest Community Church parking lot," Ashley wrote on the campaign page.
"My daughter was the absolute love of my life and she meant everything and more to me,Everything I did and everything I will do for the rest of my life is for her. She was beautiful and her smile was contagious, even after a bad day, she always cheered me up. She was taken from this world way too soon."
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Oh God will heal her. But why is she opening gofundme account? Is not just small burial? Cremation will be better with this pandemic going on.
ReplyDeleteThese Americans always want to cash out on every opportunity. I’m tired of this culture walahi.
Haba! Madam
Husband 49 and wife 23= generational gap. Husband is evil but wife seems greedy too. gofundme for a one year old's death? For what exactly?
DeleteSame question I asked. May the little girl's soul rest in peace.
DeleteSomething is wrong somewhere,God take over ooooo
ReplyDeleteThe killing and dieing this days are very scary...
Very scarry indeed!. Dancing babe, kedu ka idi ?
DeleteHusband from the pit of hell!
ReplyDeleteThis is really heartbreaking 💔💔💔
ReplyDeleteWicked Man.
ReplyDeleteOMG! I am short of words, may her soul rest in peace
ReplyDeleteAkpo kwanu nke a gini biko nu? 🤔🤔
ReplyDeleteThis is so painful.
ReplyDeleteThe last paragraph made me teary😭
The man should be checked into a psychiatric home and afterwards, face his trial.
May God console this woman.
Crazy oyibo people. To kill is always sweet to them.
ReplyDeleteTufiakwa.
Rest on princess. You are free from the madness in this world
God! Pls help women to recognize these kind of men/ those who would later turn out this way🙏🏻
ReplyDeleteA similar case happened in Owerri, where a heartless and barbaric man smashed the head of his newborn on the ground bcos she was the fifth girl.
The foolish man said he had renovated his house, thinking it was a boy.
Very ignorant😈, wicked, cold-blooded animal that should be locked away from humans forever. I AM PAINED🤒😠
😭😱😭😭😭😭😭😱😱😱😭😭
DeleteGOD please have mercy
DeleteWicked man.
ReplyDeleteThis one is nothing. Read chris watt story. That's the real shocker
ReplyDeleteSon men are not meant to be in existence
ReplyDeleteWhere are those ladies with esteem issues shouting "White men love better than Blackmen blablabla" Hope you funny b***** are reading this?
ReplyDeleteNo disrespect or regard for them White folks but seriously, most of them are Bipolar, psychopaths, Extremely irrational and crazy!
Why would a person try to kill his wife and an innocent child, why?