A Missouri mother has been left devastated after returning home to discover her nine-month-old daughter and her partner dead in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide. On February 28, 23-year-old Micah Lawery had briefly stepped out to visit a beauty store, leaving her baby girl, Ophelia, in the care of her partner, 21-year-old Zacchaeus Daniels. But when she came back to her St. Louis home, she walked into an unthinkable nightmare, KSDK reported.
Lawery found both Ophelia and Daniels lifeless, with police later confirming the deaths as a murder-suicide. Officers from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police responded to a shooting call at the apartment. Daniels was pronounced dead at the scene, while baby Ophelia was rushed to the hospital. Tragically, she did not survive.
