The ICU nurse who murdered six people in a catastrophic 100 mph collision, including a pregnant woman, her unborn child, and her one-year-old son, has been discharged from the hospital and is now being detained on a $9 million bail.
Nicole L. Linton, a 37-year-old Texas nurse who works in Los Angeles, is being detained at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, California, after being released from medical care on Sunday. The Los Angeles County District Attorney is anticipated to prosecute her in the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on Monday.
She was arrested for vehicular manslaughter after police claimed she smashed into five other cars while going up to 100 mph at a crossroads in Windsor Hills. Following the horrific collision, Asherey Ryan, 23, and her one-year-old kid Alonzo Luchiano Quintero, as well as her unborn baby boy, were confirmed dead at the site.
Renald, the unborn child’s father, was also killed in the collision as the automobile broke in two instantly on contact, according to family members.
When the ‘drunk’ driver slammed into the automobile Asherey, Renald, and young Alonzo were driving in, they were on their way to a doctor’s appointment for a pregnancy check-up.
Tabia Johnson, a witness to the collision, photographed Linton seated on a nearby sidewalk after the crash, with the flaming wreckage evident in the backdrop. Johnson, who denounced the woman’s driving, said that Linton looked to have just minor injuries, such as bleeding around the skull.
Linton is working with authorities who are testing her bloodwork to discover whether she was impaired at the time of the deadly crash.
The incident was captured on film, and it shows automobiles speeding across the street, erupting into flames, and ultimately coming to a halt in a twisted mess only feet from from rows of extremely combustible pumps.
A lady described as Linton’s friend claimed she was ‘drunk’ and ‘fighting with her boyfriend’ before getting in her vehicle and crashing into a traffic bottleneck.
On Thursday afternoon, a heartbreaking tragic pile up occurred between South La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue. Following the tragic collision at 1:40 p.m. on Friday, eight individuals were left struggling for their lives with horrific injuries. Six of those hurt were teenagers, and one had serious injuries. The driver is among those hospitalized with injuries.
The death of Asherey Ryan and her unborn son, ‘Baby Boy Ryan,’ was verified and documented by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner.
After the fatal incident, tributes came in for Asherey, who was reported to be eight months pregnant, and her child.
Seana Asherey’s sister, who wrote about the event on Instagram, said she’s still scared and devastated by the loss and blasted the motorist who she alleged crashed into her brother-in-vehicle. law’s
‘We’re searching for legal counsel because this doesn’t make sense,’ Seana said after seeing the collision recordings.
‘She abducted my sister, nephew, brother-in-law, and my son’s sole cousin.’ We’re devastated. ‘We have to bury four people, including the unborn kid,’ she continued.
‘I don’t have any words rn [right now] I’m too much in pain because this is something I never expected no one did I’m going to miss you both and I didn’t get to say goodbye or make up for time lost with you Alonzo my heart is aching may y’all rest in piece [peace] god has gained two amazing angels,’ Alonzo’s father, Luis Fernando Quintero, wrote online.
Following the horrible event, the family has set up a GoFundMe page to aid with funeral expenses.
Witness Veronica Esquival said that she was pumping gas when debris began to fly through the air. She said that a baby fell to the ground in the center of the petrol station before frantic employees attempted to resuscitate the infant.
‘I was ready to pump gas when I heard all of the sounds from all of the crashes, and then the fire explosion, and I saw objects, metal and everything flying in the air,’ she recalled. As a result, I merely hid behind the pump.
‘All of a sudden, a baby flew from the middle of the intersection to the center of the gas station and landed right in front of me.’
‘One of the staff walked over and spotted me holding the infant and grabbed it from me.’ Someone attempted to revive the infant, but he died.’
One lady, who claims to be a friend of the Mercedes driver, said that she suspected she had been drinking before to the fatal incident following a disagreement with her boyfriend.
Officials verified that Linton was alone in the automobile.
One lady stated that the driver was a friend of hers and that she had been drinking previous to the fatal incident following a quarrel with her boyfriend.
One lady stated that the driver was a friend of hers and that she had been drinking previous to the fatal incident following a quarrel with her boyfriend.
‘She was drunk, and she was unaware that it was a red light because she went right through,’ she told KTLA.
Alphonso Word, who was only a few vehicles away from the crossing when the tragedy occurred, described the accident as sounding “like a bomb.”
He said that the infant had been ‘ejected from the roadway,’ as had the expectant woman, who had ‘landed over to the side.’
Devastating photographs show burned-out automobiles after firemen quenched the massive flames generated by the incident – after an inferno made it seem as though “the whole crossroads was on fire.”
The horrifying clip, shot from a petrol station overlooking the tragedy, begins with the Mercedes coupe racing past the pumps at breakneck speed.
As it bears down on traffic moving both directions across the congested crossroads, the fateful car fails to brake.
It smacks into the first automobile, which explodes into a flame before smashing into many more that spin as a result of the massive collision. The collision sends them all racing towards another petrol station across the intersection before coming to a screeching halt in a mangled heap.
The traffic jam drew to a halt right before the second gas station across the street, which is considered an architectural landmark.
Images show damaged, burnt-out automobiles strewn across the roadway in what the California Highway Patrol termed as a “battle zone.”
‘All of a sudden, I heard a tremendous explosion and flames flew over my entire vehicle,’ Debra Jackson, who was filling up her car with petrol, told CBSLA. ‘I thought my automobile had caught fire.’
According to California Highway Patrol spokesperson Franco Pepi, ‘at least six or seven’ automobiles were involved, with three of them engulfed in flames.
‘Just unknown causes for the high speed at this moment…’ he continued. Everyone has to drive more cautiously because crashes happen all the time, and this just happens to be at the top of the list of how severe they can become.’