The father of a child who died after being found unresponsive in a vehicle in the unincorporated View Park community near South Los Angeles has been charged with murder and was being held in lieu of $2 million bail, authorities announced Thursday.

Edwin Johnson, 40, of View Park was initially arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter and child neglect, the sheriff’s department reported.

The sheriff’s department has not said if the child was left in a hot car, but the activist group Kids and Car Safety reports that the girl is the 29th hot car-related death in the U.S. and fifth in California this year.

Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Marina del Rey Station responded about 3:10 p.m. Tuesday to the 300 block of Chanson Drive, north of Slauson Avenue and e

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