An eight-and-a-half-month-old fetus was charged Monday with the murder of a driver suspected of causing a violent crash that killed five people.
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.
Lynton, her 37-year-old itinerant nurse from Houston,, Texas, said on Monday that she had passed the $9 million mark after being released from hospital over the weekend. Imprisoned on dollar bail. It was not immediately clear if there was an attorney available to speak on her behalf. (144 km) at a red light, 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 her 23-year-old Ashley Ryan, her 11-month-old son Alonzo, her Quintero, and boyfriend Reynold Lester, Sha'seana Kerr told her GoFundMe. said in a post.
Lester's family told her KABC-TV that the 24-year-old security guard was the father of Ryan's eight-and-a-half-month unborn child. Family members said Ryan was on her way to see a doctor for a prenatal checkup when she was killed. Instead, 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 fell apart 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 this violent collision at this intersection has been cleared and traffic has eventually been reopened, but with devastating consequences for the families and friends of the casualties," Gascon said. I was. It's a loss not just to the families who learned of this incredible tragedy or watched the viral video of the crash, but our entire community," he said. They said they found no evidence that she 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, according to the Los Angeles Times. reported.
