#Jaelene Daniels

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Katherine Donlevy

Published: Apr 10, 2024

The killer mom who butchered her boyfriend and pushed her kids out of a moving car before crashing into a tree Monday was a once-prolific astrologer who was terrified of the impending “apocalypse” she believed the eclipse would incite, according to a report.

Danielle Johnson — a popular astrology influencer who went by the name Danielle Ayoka online — warned her 106,000 followers to “wake up” and to “pick a side” in the days before she carried out the twisted murder-suicide that spanned several Los Angeles neighborhoods, law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times Wednesday.

“WAKE UP WAKE UP THE APOCALYPSE IS HERE. EVERYONE WHO HAS EARS LISTEN. YOUR TIME TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS NOW,” Johnson wrote last week in a tweet that was viewed 600,000 times.

“IF YOU BELIEVE A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE FOR THE PEOPLE RT NOW. THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE. THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE!!!! REPOST TO MAKE THE CHOICE FOR THE COLLECTIVE.”

Three days later — hours before the eclipse was expected to occur over California — Johnson murdered two of her loved ones and tried to kill her oldest daughter before killing herself in an early-morning massacre, according to police.

Neither the self-described “divine healer” nor her boyfriend had any documented history of domestic violence or calls to police, leading investigators to suspect that the sprawling bloodbath was influenced by Johnson’s crazed end-of-world paranoia, sources told the LA Times.

Johnson urged her followers to protect themselves from the eclipse, which she dubbed the “epitome of spiritual warfare.”

[ Jaelen Allen Chaney was found stabbed to death in the Woodland Hills apartment he shared with his girlfriend and her two kids. ]

Johnson — who offered self-help and healing sessions online for just $2.99 — spewed antisemitic posts and conspiracy theories about natural phenomenon on X.

She also likened the New Jersey earthquake to white supremacy and accused the government and media of trying to cover up what she feared was the impending apocalypse.

“THESE ARE ALL THE WAYS THEY HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMING US WITH LIES!!! LOOK AT THESE TO UNDERSTAND THE AGENDA THIS IS REAL THIS IS SPIRITUAL WARFARE,” she wrote.

WAKE UP WAKE UP THE APOCALYPSE IS HERE. EVERYONE WHO HAS EARS LISTEN. YOUR TIME TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS NOW. IF YOU BELIEVE A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE FOR THE PEOPLE RT NOW. THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE. THERE IS POWER IN CHOICE!!!! REPOST TO MAKE THE CHOICE FOR THE COLLECTIVE pic.twitter.com/NMyuLkBj5l— Ayoka (@MysticxLipstick) April 5, 2024

The healer — who also peddled R&B songs — was once a media darling who was profiled by Refinery 29 and the Fader, both of which applauded her clairvoyant talents.

In 2016, Refinery 29 said Johnson had “a brilliant gift for calling out the nonsense of any sun sign in need of real truths.”

Johnson was apparently last active on social media Sunday afternoon — roughly 12 hours before police say she stabbed her 29-year-old boyfriend, Jaelen Allen Chaney, in the heart while he was on the couch of their luxury Woodland Hills apartment.

[ Johnson was driving “in excess” of 100 mph when she smashed into a tree. ]

Evidence suggests she tried to drag the body out of the unit, but gave up and left his body in the kitchen, sources told the LA Times.

She then piled her two daughters in her Porsche Cayenne, which she drove through a security gate as she peeled away from the scene.

Around 5 a.m., Johnson threw her 9-year-old daughter out of the car and onto a freeway while the girl clutched her 8-month-old baby sister, authorities said. The older child survived the fall and escaped traffic, but the infant was found dead at the scene.

[ Johnson allegedly threw her kids out of the car onto the highway, killing the infant, between killing Chaney and herself. ]

Johnson’s body was found several miles away at 5:30 a.m. inside a crushed car that had been driven into a tree at speeds topping 100 mph.

It was another two hours before police were called to the apartment where the violence broke out and pieced together the horrifying incident.

Investigators found a trail of bloody footprints leading through the open door of the apartment, which was also littered with black feathers and tarot cards, sources said.

Police initially said Chaney and Johnson were engaged in a verbal altercation when Johnson picked up the knife around 3:40 a.m.

The partial eclipse was visible across California about seven hours later.

It is believed the 9-year-old child — the sole survivor of the horrifying attack — had witnessed her mother slay Chaney.

Johnson killed herself more than 30 miles south of the site of Chaney’s murder.

Investigators are also still working to determine if the baby had died before being thrown from the car.

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The world is better off without her. Mourn only for the man and the baby she killed, and the child who has lost her both her father and sister.

Here's a tip for those planning a murder-suicide: do the suicide bit first.

Pseudoscientific bullshit is not harmless. Being utterly convinced by false beliefs has consequences.

[beardedmrbean]

A Los Angeles woman fatally stabbed her partner and possibly threw her two children from a moving SUV on the freeway before she fatally crashed into a tree Monday morning, authorities said.

An 8-month-old girl died and her 9-year-old sister was injured in the violence, which began around 3:40 a.m., Los Angeles police said Tuesday.

The children’s mother, Danielle Johnson, 34, got in an argument with a man whom she lived with, Jaelen Chaney, and stabbed him with a knife, police said.

Johnson then took her two children in a Porsche SUV, and at 4:30 a.m. that car was seen driving on Interstate 405 "when the two children were expelled from the vehicle while it was moving,” police said in a statement.

Investigators believe the children fell or were thrown out of the moving vehicle, the California Highway Patrol said. The infant died, and the 9-year-old was taken to a hospital with what police said were moderate injuries.

Johnson then sped into a tree in Redondo Beach, a coastal city in the Los Angeles region, at more than 100 mph, police said. She did not survive the crash, which occurred around 5 a.m.

Investigators later found Chaney, 29, dead in the Woodland Hills home where they lived with Johnson's children, police said. The deadly incidents were later connected and determined to be a double murder and a suicide, police said.

“We really don’t know why this incident escalated to such violence,” Police Lt. Guy Golan said, according to NBC Los Angeles.

The highway patrol said it was broadcast a medical emergency at 4:29 a.m. about the injured children on the freeway, and authorities found the infant with major injuries. The Culver City Fire Department pronounced her dead at 4:44 a.m., the highway patrol said.

Redondo Beach is around 30 miles south of Woodland Hills, which is in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. The 405 Freeway is the main artery linking the western part of the valley to the Los Angeles basin.

The surviving child is in the care of Child Protective Services, NBC Los Angeles reported.

[mushi-shield]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who authorities say fatally stabbed her partner at their Los Angeles apartment Monday then threw her two children from a moving SUV onto the freeway, killing her infant daughter, was an astrologer who called the impending solar eclipse “the epitome of spiritual warfare” in an online post days earlier.

Los Angeles police believe Danielle Cherakiyah Johnson, 34, posted on X as an astrology influencer and recording artist with the moniker “ Ayoka,” in the days leading up to the violence, which began hours before the eclipse peaked in Southern California, said Lt. Guy Golan.

While detectives have reviewed Johnson’s posts, police are not considering the eclipse to be a precipitating or contributing factor to the slayings “because we just don’t know why she did what she did,” Golan told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

“We’ve taken all the facts we can, but without being able to interview her and without having something more tangible than a post on X, I don’t know how much weight you can give to somebody (saying) there’s an apocalypse and attribute it to one of the most horrific murders we’ve had in LA,” Golan, who is head of the homicide unit investigating the case, said.

Authorities say Johnson and her partner, 29-year-old Jaelen Allen Chaney, had an argument around 3:40 a.m. Monday in their apartment in Woodland Hills, about 25 miles (42 km) northwest of downtown LA. Johnson stabbed Chaney and fled with her kids, an 8-month-old girl and her 9-year-old sister, in a Porsche Cayenne.

Johnson then drove along Interstate 405 in Culver City and threw her daughters out of the moving SUV around 4:30 a.m., police said. The baby was pronounced dead on the road, but the older daughter — who witnessed the stabbing — survived with moderate injuries.

Johnson traveled southwest to Redondo Beach, where a half-hour later she was driving over 100 miles per hour (160 kph) and crashed into a tree. The LAPD is investigating whether the solo crash was an apparent suicide.

The Los Angeles Times first reported on Johnson’s social media activities in connection with the killings.

“Get your protection on and your heart in the right place,” she posted April 4 to more than 105,000 followers on X. “The world is very obviously changing right now and if you ever needed to pick a side, the time to do right in your life is now. Stay strong you got this.”

On April 5, she posted in all caps, “Wake up wake up the apocalypse is here. Everyone who has ears listen. Your time to choose what you believe is now.”

Her social media also included a mix of antisemitic screeds, conspiracy theories about vaccines and warnings about the end of the world alongside astrological predictions and positive affirmations. Also on April 5, she posted the word “LOVE” dozens of times. Her personal website offers a variety of services including “zodiac healing work,” “alcohol balancing system” and an “aura cleanse.”

Johnson’s internet presence and online following dates back years. The Fader, a music magazine, interviewed her in 2016 as an astrology personality.

“She was very standoffish,” said Norman Linder, a Woodland Hills neighbor. He only saw Johnson and her daughters a few times before in the apartment complex.

Another neighbor, Anita Mazer, told the AP that when she saw the family, “I just said ‘hello.’ The baby was really cute,” she said Wednesday. “It’s horrible.”

Golan said there were no calls for police to respond to the couple’s apartment prior to Monday’s killing, when neighbors called 911 after seeing the door open. Johnson did not have a felony criminal record in California and there were no indications of reported domestic violence.

Detectives did not immediately link the Woodland Hills slaying to the daughters, Golan said. He was in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood when he started getting push alerts from news organizations on his cellphone about the infant’s death on the roadway in Culver City. Investigators realized there might be a connection between two missing children from the family’s apartment and the tragedy on the interstate.

“I was like ‘Oh, there’s two young girls who were stranded on the 405 Freeway.’ That is such a random and terrible thing to hear about. And we knew there were two young children,” Golan continued. “We were setting up an Amber Alert.”

Golan said detectives discovered candles and cards inside the apartment, but he was not sure whether they were tarot cards.

“They didn’t look like your standard deck of cards that you would play poker with,” he said.

The solar eclipse’s path of totality stretched from Mazatlán, Mexico, to Newfoundland, Canada, a swath approximately 115 miles (185 kilometers) wide. Revelers were engulfed in darkness at state parks, on city rooftops and in small towns when the moon blocked out the sun, though Southern California only saw a partial eclipse that peaked at 11:12 a.m.

Across the globe, the celestial event spawned fears of the apocalypse and other suspicions rooted in religion and spirituality. But Golan noted that others who posted online about their eclipse-related worries did not commit violence like Johnson.

“How many people wrote about it,” he said, “and didn’t go out and murder somebody?”

[gamergirl929]

Hinkle being dropped from the NCC Roster is truly a fucking win for the gays.

[uswnt-nation]

I've been thinking about this recently but didn't know how to properly phrase it. these 2 tweets are absolutely correct. there's no denying that majority of the woso fandom cares about injustices against the LGBTQ+ community (rightfully so) more than racism. let's not pretend that black trans women aren't the backbone of the entire community. intersectionality exists. you cannot speak up about one while staying silent about the other. if your activism isn't intersectional, don't call yourself an activist. we must do better.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Kudos to Jaelene Daniels!

The Washington Stand reports: On Jaelene Daniels’s Twitter page, there’s a single pinned tweet. It says simply, “If you live for people’s acceptance, you’ll die from their rejection.” “Unashamed,” she added below. The post is from 2016, a year before the soccer star made coast-to-coast headlines for refusing to wear an LGBT pride jersey. It was a decision that cost Jaelene a spot on the U.S. Women’s National team — ending a longtime dream. “I just felt so convicted in my spirit that it wasn’t my job to wear this jersey,” she said. Five years later, that conviction hasn’t changed.

Daniels plays for a North Carolina team that couldn’t be more appropriately named: the North Carolina Courage. But unfortunately, the team named “courage” refuses to tolerate it — at least where religious freedom is concerned. Daniels, who’s more than familiar with the harassment that comes with standing your cultural ground, was asked by management to participate in the team’s Pride night last Friday. Along with a pre-game LGBT festival, players were told to wear a special transgender and rainbow-themed jersey. Daniels, in keeping with her longtime convictions, refused. The team, in a familiar overreaction, benched her. “Jaelene will not be rostered tonight as she has made the decision to not wear our Pride jersey,” a Courage spokeswoman said in a statement before the game. “While we’re disappointed with her choice, we respect her right to make that decision for herself. We’re excited to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community with our fans, players, and staff tonight and look forward to hosting our first ever Pride Festival before kickoff.”

Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first time Daniels has been dissed by the Courage front office. When the team re-signed her in December, they actually apologized for it, acknowledging that her Christian beliefs were at odds with the league’s woke agenda.

The decision to offer Daniels a contract, the team insisted, “was not made lightly and included significant conversations between organization leadership and Jaelene. The priority expressed in those conversations is the safety of our players and maintaining an inclusive, respectful space for the entire team. … We as a club acknowledge the impact this announcement has on our community,” the North Carolina Courage said in an unsigned open letter to fans at the time. “We’ve spent the past few days reading your messages and reflecting on our actions. We are very sorry to all those we have hurt, especially those within the LGBTQIA+ community.”

While the team’s desertion must have stung, the soccer star never wavered, writing graciously on her social media, “I remain committed to my faith and my desire for people to know that my love for them isn’t based on their belief system or sexuality. I pray and firmly believe that my teammates know how much I cherish them, respect them, and love them.”

It was a classy and mature response from a woman who should be celebrated for standing on principle — but instead has been vilified, shamed, and abandoned by her own team. Obviously, the street of tolerance only runs one way in women’s soccer, as Megan Rapinoe is lionized for spitting on America and showered with endorsements for flaunting her same-sex attractions. One player is elevated for her convictions (Rapinoe), the other (Daniels) is punished for them. Welcome to the hypocritical, hyper-politicized world of modern sports.

While the soccer community gushes over Rapinoe’s “bravery,” the real heroes are the ones refusing to bend to the Left’s cultural orthodoxy. Like the handful of Tampa Bay Rays players who pushed back against the team’s LGBT uniforms in June, Daniels put biblical truth ahead of her professional career. Again.

Back in 2017, when Jaelene withdrew her name from the national team over the Pride dispute, she willingly walked away from every goal she’d worked to achieve. “The peace trumped the disappointment,” she explained, looking back. “I knew in my spirit that I was doing the right thing.” Now, a half-decade later, she’s fighting the same battles, knowing that if the sport she loves has to be sacrificed then it’s “just part of His plan.” As she said then, “Maybe this is why [I was] meant to play soccer. Just to show other believers to be obedient.”

[miamarie1960]

The whole Jaelene Hinkle thing is just so infuriating! I hope noone is surprised about it though. She IS a homophobe, pure and simple! She can say it her religion and all that BS! But BS it is and nothing else!

I worked for the Swedish church for a long time and I have had so many discussions with priests and deacons and everybody was inclusive and supportive. I never heard one single person say that it was wrong to love someone.

I’m actually more angry at the comment from the management about respecting her choices! I mean, how can they be supporting her! She is employed by them, they pay her salary and she just decides to not wanting to show up for work! Man, that is such BS!

And without any kind of disciplinary action taken against her! She let her whole damn team down tonight! What if the gay players on the team at next game tell management “we are sitting this one out, it’s against our beliefs to share a pitch with someone who can’t respect us”. What do you think would happen to them? I doubt very much that they would get “we respect their choice” from the FO!

[fruityheffalump]

You can change ya last name but yah still gonna hinkle honkle

[sixsclassic]

once again, fuck the bigot

[kneesocks77]

END. HER. CONTRACT.

[jennyboom21]

(X)

[too-late-to-this]

How long till they turn of these comments like they did on her birthday post

[rowdownthrowdown]

Why do these announcers love Hinkle and Williams so much

They're basically Jesus to them

[idkwtfishappening]

nc courage changes there logo says happy pride, yet allows jaelene daniels to play knowing she has been openly homophobic before,hmmm sounds werid

[woso-fan13]

5.  'Great. Now I Have Your Germs All Over Me.’

Back at camp! A million thoughts were running through your head, mainly how excited you were to see everyone. You were a bit nervous, some of your teammates had texted you to tell you an old player was coming back and that you should avoid her. Not a huge deal, you could handle that. 

After a long day of travel, you finally make it to the hotel. You had arrived hours after everyone else, so they had already settled into their rooms. Checking in quickly, you take the elevator to the floor everyone would be staying on. You were exhausted and didn’t feel great, all you wanted was to sleep for 12 uninterrupted hours and get ready to practice. 

Walking into the room, it was obvious you had a roommate. Glancing quickly at the baggage, you didn’t know who it was. Shrugging it off, you drop your belongings by the unoccupied bed. Quickly getting ready in the bathroom and putting your pajamas on, you fall into bed. Squinting slightly at the Bible on the nightstand, you turn over and fall asleep. 

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You woke up coughing just after 11pm. Clearly, the sleep did not help you feel better. You manage to reach an arm out to the nightstand, grabbing your water bottle from where you had thrown it before you went to bed. Taking a few long sips, you manage to get your cough under control. You’re about to try to fall asleep again when the bathroom door opens. 

Someone walks out, somewhat hidden in the dark room. As they step closer, you are able to make out a face you have only seen pictures of. Jaelene Hinkle. Technically, it was Daniels now, it was still the same person. 

She stares down at you, clearly sizing you up. You’re not sure what she finds, but she clearly doesn’t like it. 

“Why were you coughing?” she asks bluntly. 

“I don’t feel great, I’m hoping that I’ll sleep it off,” you respond. 

“You’re sick?! Great, I have your germs all over me. You better pray that I don’t get sick.”

With that, she quickly gathers her belongings and leaves the room. 

Confused, you blink. After a minute, you start crying. Tears drip down your face as you stare blankly into the dark room. You don’t feel well, you already made a bad impression, you probably wouldn’t be able to play, and, to top it all off, you were still half asleep. 

The sound of the door opening interrupts your pity party. You try to stop the tears, you don’t want to embarrass yourself if Hinkle was back. The tears keep streaming no matter how hard you try, so you bury your face in the pillow to muffle your sobs. 

“Oh, sweet girl. What’s going on with you?”

That’s definitely not your roommate. You turn your head out of the pillow, looking over. Ash and Ali are settling their bags by the spare bed. 

Ali quickly makes her way over to you, Ash just a few steps behind. Ali climbs into the bed next to you, Ash settling by your feet so she could see you. Ali wraps an arm around you, pulling you into her lap and rocking you gently. 

“No wonder you’re so upset, you’re burning up. Ash, can you go grab our med kit? I think it’s in my bag.”

Ash quickly grabs the kit before coming to stand next to Ali. She tucks your hair behind one ear before sticking a thermometer in. It soon beeps, and she pulls it out, looking at it quickly before showing Ali. They don’t say anything, but Ali pulls in a sharp breath and holds you a little tighter. 

Ash sticks something on your forehead, your hand automatically going to pull it off. She stops your motion, bringing your hand back down. 

“You gotta leave it on, baby. It’s just a big sticker, but it’ll bring your fever down.”

You nod sadly, your hand latching on to Ali’s shirt instead. Now that you are calming slightly, Ash hands you some medicine to take. Trusting her fully, you swallow it. 

“Why are you guys here?” You ask the questions you’ve been wondering. 

“We’re in the room next door to you, someone came to try and crash with us. When we found out you were sick, we traded rooms with her,” Ash explains. 

“Thanks,” you murmur quietly. 

“Always,” Ali assures you. “Now, get some sleep. Hopefully you’ll feel better when you wake up.”

Nodding, you go to move out of her arms. Ali simply tightens her arms around you, keeping you cradled in her arms. Surprised, you look at her. Shushing you, she uses one hand to guide your head down to rest on her shoulder. 

“Let me hold you. You just go to sleep.”

You quickly fall victim to the pull of sleep. Ali keeps holding you, rocking you long after you have fallen asleep. The two of them definitely have your germs on them, the only difference is that they don’t care. 

[gamergirl929]

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You knew you could be hard to get along with, you knew things easily annoyed you as well, but there was something about Kristie Mewis that exacerbated those feelings.  

Anytime she was around you became even more irritable, something that made your NCC teammates venture FAR away from you, unwilling to face your ire.  

You scoff, nudging a ball towards one of your teammates, which HAPPENS to UNFORTUNATELY be Jaelene Daniels.  

She pokes the ball back in your direction and you simply let it roll by landing at another of your NCC teammate’s feet.  

“Yeah, I don’t think so.” You scoff, making your way instead towards Debinha.  

If there was someone you couldn’t stand more than Kristie Mewis, it was Jaelene Daniels, the mere sight of her making your blood boil.