13-month-old fatally stabbed at North Hollywood apartment

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Neighbors hold a candlelight vigil outside a North Hollywood apartment where a toddler was fatally stabbed.

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Firemen stand outside a North Hollywood apartment on Vanowen Street where a toddler was fatally stabbed.

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Police officers leave the scene of an North Hollywood apartment where the toddler was fatally stabbed.

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The scene at a North Hollywood apartment on Vanowen Street where a toddler was fatally stabbed.

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Neighbors hold a candlelight vigil outside the North Hollywood apartment where a toddler was stabbed.

(Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

By James QueallyStaff Writer

Oct. 21, 2016 9:40 PM PT

A 13-month-old girl died Friday after a man stabbed her at a North Hollywood apartment, Los Angeles police said.

The girl’s mother took her to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Police initially reported that the child died after being thrown out a window, but later corrected that account.

The alleged assailant, a man whose age and identity were not immediately released, also stabbed himself several times and set a small fire inside the apartment in the 13200 block of Vanowen Street about 2 p.m., said Officer Drake Madison, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.