Nurse convicted of murder in high-speed South L.A. car wreck that killed six
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Set us as preferred A traveling nurse who slammed her Mercedes into a crowded South L.A.intersection at 131 miles per hour was convicted murder on Friday afternoon after jurors rejected an argument that she had a seizure behind the wheel.
Several gasps and sobs erupted from some of the victims’ relatives as the verdict was read.A number of Linton’s loved ones sat away from them in a separate row of benches.
The jury only deliberated for about three hours.Prosecutors say Linton, 41, was furious with co-workers and thinking about quitting her job as a traveling nurse at Kaiser Permanente hospital in West L.A.
when she drove down La Brea Avenue.While approaching a busy intersection at Slauson Boulevard, prosecutors say Linton “floored” the gas pedal before smashing into multiple cars and causing a fiery crash.
The wreck killed six people: 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 fetus.The aftermath of the crash was nightmarish.
The intersection was littered with burning car parts, streaks of blood stained the asphalt and black smoke filled the sky.The force of the collision ripped Ryan’s fetus from her womb and launched Alonzo’s car seat through the air, prosecutors have said.
California Eric Weinberg, who worked as a producer or screenwriter on more than 90 episodes of the beloved sitcom “Scrubs,” has been charged with luring several women to his Los Angeles home and sexually abusing them.Prosecutors argued Linton’s reckless driving was fueled by her refusal to address mental health issues.She had been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder and was involved in several documented incidents of violence and erratic driving when she’...