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Driver Was “Stressed” as She Mowed Down Dozens of Las Vegas Tourists
Holloway told police she was trying to sleep in her vehicle with her daughter but “kept getting run off by security of the properties she stopped at”, according to her arrest report.
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The child is in protective custody.
“She ended up on the Strip, ‘a spot she didn’t need to be, ‘” the report quoted her as saying.
“She would not explain why she drove onto the sidewalk but remembered a body bouncing off of her windshield, breaking it”, it read.
Cops say the incident may have been influenced by problems with her boyfriend adding they had not ruled out terrorism as a motive. She might have been on her way to Texas to meet with the father of her daughter after the pair had split up some time ago.
Holloway had parked near the Tuscany Casino, off the Strip a few blocks from the crash, and told a valet driver to call 911 because she had hit some pedestrians, Lombardo said.
Her three-year-old daughter was not hurt.
The sheriff said she was very stoic and didn’t appear to be “distressed” from her actions. Her GPA was a lowly 1.41 but counselors from the center helped Holloway bring her grades up.
A Facebook post attributed to Wolfson said Holloway is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday at 8 a.m. local time. “Not only did I graduate, I left with a 3.40 (GPA) and $17,000 in scholarships”, she said.
Officials said Holloway had been living in the auto in Las Vegas for about a week and that she was driving with a suspended OR licence.
She said Holloway is a former fashion model who attended Portland Community College and had created her own fashion line.
Hardaway said her cousin “makes a pretty good living”. Droves of visitors to the stretch walk from one casino to another.
The crash occurred in entrance of the Paris and Planet Hollywood on line casino-inns and throughout from dancing water fountains of the Bellagio lodge-on line casino.
People jumped on the auto and banged on its windows, but Lakeisha Holloway, 24, would not stop driving on the sidewalk, Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters.
The tragedy unfolded on Las Vegas Boulevard, steps away from the Planet Hollywood resort where the 2015 Miss Universe pageant was crowning a victor before a live audience and TV audiences around the world.
Lakeisha Holloway, the driver accused of deliberately and repeatedly plowing her auto into pedestrians on a busy sidewalk on the famous Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, was going through significant challenges at the time of the incident.
Police urging more witnesses to come forward described her as an African American woman in her 20s who was driving a 1996 Oldsmobile with OR licence plates.
The Clark County District Attorney’s Office announced in a press release that it had charged Holloway with one count of murder with use of a deadly weapon, one count of child abuse, neglect or endangerment and one count of leaving the scene of an accident. He says he has not seen police reports yet, so it’s too early to say if he will pursue an insanity defense.
As of Monday night, three people were still in hospital in critical condition, including two unidentified Canadians.
The woman who collided into dozens of people in Las Vegas has been facing financial burdens for two years.
Victims were from Oregon, Florida, Colorado, California, Washington, Mexico, and Quebec, Canada.
Among the injured were five wrestlers and their coach from Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
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Pacific University, in OR, said Monday that four of its students were among the injured. “Why would it slow to go around and then accelerate again?” he said.