Trial begins for nurse accused in fiery South L.A. car crash that left six dead

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Set us as preferred When Nicole Linton’s Mercedes-Benz flew through a red light and barreled into a busy South L.A.intersection, causing an explosion on contact, the streaking luxury car looked like a missile, according to video displayed in court Tuesday morning.As the wreckage of the three-car crash burned, video from the scene on Aug.

4, 2022, captured apocalyptic images.Thick black smoke filled the sky.

Blood streaked the asphalt among littered car parts.An infant’s car seat lay overturned in the intersection, the 1-year-old child who had been riding in it ejected into a nearby parking lot, where horrified bystanders rushed to help and cradled the baby’s broken neck, prosecutors said.

As a camera pans through the destruction, it stops on one long blood smear: the remains of an unborn baby whom prosecutors say was “ripped” from her mother’s womb in the crash.The nightmare imagery was the result of Linton’s decision to press her gas pedal to the floor and reach speeds of 131 mph, prosecutors allege, plowing into the intersection of Slauson and La Brea avenues.Linton’s trial on six counts of murder began Tuesday, with many of the victims’ relatives seated in the courtroom as prosecutors displayed gruesome images of their loved ones’ last moments.

One by one, they left in tears, racing for the door.“The defendant had plenty of time to stop, to brake, to swerve,” Deputy Dist.

Atty.Brittany Vannoy said.

“But instead she floored that gas pedal to 131 mph, ignored that red light, and barreled toward that intersection, killing six people.”The wreck claimed the lives of Nathesia Lewis, 42, Lynette Noble, 38, Asherey Ryan, 23, her 11-month-old son, Alonzo, and her boyfriend, Reynold Lester, 23.Ryan was more than eight months pregnant at the time, and Linton is also charged with killing her unborn ch...