The father of a child who died after being found unresponsive in a vehicle in the unincorporated View Park community near South Los Angeles was being held Thursday in lieu of $2 million bail.

Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Marina del Rey Station responded about 3:10 p.m. Tuesday to the 300 block of Chanson Drive, north of Slauson Avenue and east of Crenshaw Boulevard, after receiving a report of a child not breathing, officials said.

“Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel also responded and pronounced the child deceased at the scene,” according to a sheriff’s department statement.

The child was identified Wednesday by the county medical examiner as 1-year-old Maeve Blankeley-Johnson. No cause of death was listed.

The sheriff’s department has not stated

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