LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón on Monday announced charges against Nicole Lorraine Linton, the 37-year-old nurse from Houston who police say ran a red light and plowed her speeding Mercedes through a busy intersection in Windsor Hills causing a deadly crash.Six people were killed in the violent wreck at the intersection of S.
La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue. The dead include 23-year-old Asheray Ryan, her almost-one-year-old son Alonzo, her unborn son and the father of that unborn child, as well as two others.
Gascón said his office cannot file the manslaughter charge in a case involving an unborn child.BACKGROUND: Houston nurse speeding thru LA intersection kills 6, including pregnant woman, in fiery crashThe DA said the case was still under investigation, and wouldn't discuss all of the details, but when asked if Linton was driving under the influence Gascón said, "There is no evidence of any alcohol use at this point."Nicole Litton, from Houston, was charged with six counts of murder and five counts of gross vehicular manslaughter for her role in a fatal crash in Los Angeles last Thursday.At the site of the crash on S.
La Brea and Slauson, a makeshift memorial continues to grow. "I was on that street there," Latricia Tucker said, adding it happened, "right in front of my face."Tucker says last Thursday she saw the speeding car and watched in shock as driver Linton crashed into two cars.