Detectives are investigating the death of a 7-year-old boy whose body was found in the freezer of a home in Lynwood, NBC4 Investigates has learned.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was called to an apartment on Euclid Avenue Tuesday night following a call for a welfare check on the child, authorities said. At the scene, deputies found the young boy’s body in the freezer.

As a result of the grim discovery, the boy’s mother, father and grandmother were detained, the sheriff’s department said.

Officials later arrested the boy’s mother, 25-year-old Destiny Harrison, on suspicion of murder. The boy’s father, 25-year-old Daniel Monzon, and his grandmother, 46-year-old Ana Zarceno-Carcamo, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.

The cause of the child’s death has not been revealed. His name is being withheld.

Three other children in the household, whose ages are 9 months, 13 and 16, were placed into protective custody.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.

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