If convicted on all charges, she could face 90 years in prison.
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Los Angeles — The driver killed five An 8-and-a-half-month-old fetus was charged Monday with murder after he was suspected of causing a violent crash.
Nicole Lorraine Linton has been charged with gross negligence in her six counts of murder and her five counts of vehicular manslaughter, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
If convicted on all charges, she could face her 90-year prison sentence.
Linton, her 37-year-old itinerant nurse from Houston, Texas, appeared in court for the first time on Monday after being discharged from the hospital over the weekend. Lynton, who appeared in a wheelchair, did not file her petition, and her arraignment continued until October. She was ordered to be held without bail pending a bail hearing next week. , fled a red light and slammed into a car at a busy intersection in unincorporated Windsor Hills, about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of downtown. Los Angeles. Several victims were thrown from their vehicles and several vehicles caught fire.
The accident killed 23-year-old Ashley Ryan, her 11-month-old son Alonzo Quintero, and her boyfriend. has died, Reynold Lester, Sha'seana Kerr said in a GoFundMe post.
Lester's family told his KABC-TV that the 24-year-old security guard is the father of Ryan's eight-and-a-half-month unborn child. Family members said Ryan was on his way to see a doctor for a prenatal diagnosis when he was killed. , the fetus was identified by the coroner's office as Armani Lester and was listed as having been born on the same day he died.
"A young family was destroyed in an instant," District Attorney George Gascon said at a press conference.
Two of her other women were also killed, but their names were not released as of Monday.
"Debris from a violent collision at this intersection was cleared and traffic was eventually reopened, but with devastating consequences for the families and friends of the casualties," said Gascon. said. "It's a huge loss, not just to our families, but to our entire community who learned of this incredible tragedy or saw a viral video of the crash," he said. said they found no evidence that Linton was under the influence of alcohol, but prosecutors said she had a history of dangerous crashes and knew of the threat her driving behavior posed. The Los Angeles Times reported
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