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Nurse charged with 'psychosis' for killing 6 in LA accident, implicated in 13 accidents

Nicole Linton appears in Los Angeles Superior Court for arraignment on murder charges stemming from a traffic accident, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Los Angeles.
Nicole Linton in Los Angeles Appears Monday, August 8, 2022 in Los Angeles Superior Court for arraignment of murder charges resulting from a car accident in Los Angeles. Photo by Frederick M. Brown /AP

The violent Los Angeles crash was the 13th traffic Despite being involved in an accident and having a "serious" history of mental illness, she worked at six hospitals in two years.

Nicole, 37, of Houston Lorraine Linton has been charged with six murders as a result of the horrific August 4th crash.

According to reports, she had no drugs or alcohol in her system, and it remains unclear why she ignored a red light and got into a car at an intersection at 145 km/h. .

Prosecutors revealed in their first court appearance that Linton was involved in 13 traffic accidents in 2020, including one involving two vehicles combined. However, theLos Angeles Times reported.

According to crash records from two of her incidents in Texas (2013 and her 2016) obtained by the Daily Mail, she was rear-ended on both occasions. is shown.

Linton signed a contract to work at a hospital in Los Angeles, where she was placed by a staffing agency from her AMN health care.

But before that, she was her manager in sales at General Motors in 2009, and the following year she began her healthcare career at NYU as an "external student," according to Daily. Email reports.

Her attorney said she had a "serious" history of mental health problems that may have contributed to her crash.

It remains unclear why Linton was allowed to work as an itinerant nurse - in two years she worked at six different hospitals, emails reports - by her attorney that she had extensive mental health problems.

Two unidentified womenAshley Ryan, 23, 6 months pregnant, her 11-month-old son Alonzo Quintero, and her unborn fiancée. died with The baby's father, Reynold Lester.

Her family was heading to a doctor's appointment for a pregnancy test when Linton was hit by a car.

Little Her Alonzo's devastated father, Luis Quintero, said the baby was always "full of joy," he told KABC.

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Quintero was injured during the interview.

"I want to see justice done," he sobbed. "Something for her, in return for what she has done. Maybe I can forgive her. But not now. She took my son away from me.

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