Crazed mother ran through streets naked after stabbing 6-year-old daughter to death, police say

By Gregan Wingert

Published Monday, March 12, 2012 | 12:07 p.m.

Updated Monday, March 12, 2012 | 5:11 p.m.

A 27-year-old mother who was found running through the streets naked, covered with blood near Vegas Drive and Jones Boulevard, used scissors to stab and kill her 6-year-old daughter Sunday in their northwest valley home, Metro Police say.

Danielle Slaughter, 27, Las Vegas, was arrested Sunday on one count of murder in connection with the death of Kyla Franks, according to police and the Clark County Coroner’s Office.

“We’re confident that we do have the right person,” Lt. Ray Steiber of Metro’s Homicide Section said during a media briefing Monday afternoon.

Police said they were called around 8:55 p.m. to a home on the 1600 block of Palmae Way and found the girl deceased in the master bedroom.

The girl was stabbed multiple times between 4:30 p.m and 6 p.m., Steiber said, adding the scissors were recovered from the home.

No one else was home at the time. The homeowner, who lives there with his own daughter, found Franks’ body and called police.

“The mother was nowhere to be found upon the child being discovered,” Steiber said.

Slaughter fled on foot and was found about two miles away in the area of Vegas Drive and Jones Boulevard, police said.

Police, unaware of the death of the 6-year-old, transported the naked woman to Valley Hospital, Steiber said.

“The mother had some sort of mental breakdown,” Steiber said. “It was treacherous as for how this child was killed.”

Slaughter is in custody at the Clark County Detention Center, police said. The exact cause of Franks’ death will be released by the Coroner’s Office after an autopsy is complete.

The investigation into the case is ongoing, police said.