(L.A.) Jaliya Hickman, 7, Died in a Hospital
Case Number: 2017-07724
Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a seven-year-old Black female that occurred in a hospital.
The coroner’s office identified the girl as Jaliya Hickman.
Manner of Death: Homicide
Cause of Death: Probable Asphyxia
RIP JALIYA HICKMAN (December 9, 2009 – October 20, 2017)
Formal pronouncement of death was made on Friday at 5:43 p.m.
The decedent and her baby sister were attacked by their mother who in 2026 would be determined to have been insane at the time of the killings.
(L.A.) Camille Brewster Hickman, a Baby, Died in a Parking Lot
TIMELINE
October 18, 2017: Surveillance cameras at a local market captured the final footage of Jasmine Hickman walking down the sidewalk with her two children during the night.
October 19, 2017: At around 2:30 a.m., authorities discovered Hickman and her daughters unresponsive in a South LA parking lot. Her 38-day-old newborn, Camille, was pronounced dead at the scene.
October 20, 2017: Her 7-year-old daughter, Jaliya, passed away at the hospital from organ failure resulting from the suffocation.
June 16, 2026: Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Harrison ruled that Hickman was insane during the commission of the crimes, following an agreement between the prosecution and defense based on evaluations by two independent doctors.