Investigators say she intentionally drove her auto onto the sidewalk in Las Vegas Sunday night.
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A lady accused of deliberately plowing a automotive carrying her baby automotive by means of crowds of pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk spent lower than two minutes Wednesday getting arraigned on homicide, hit-and-run and youngster abuse costs.
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“It shows her traveling in traffic with many other cars and then, for whatever reason, making a right turn onto a sidewalk where there were many, many people walking, and her running over people and not stopping and continuing to drive”, Wolfson said of suspect Lakeisha N. Holloway.
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She barely spoke and nodded to acknowledge that she understood she’ll remain in jail through the holidays while both sides investigate the crash Sunday that killed a woman and injured dozens of people.
Holloway’s lawyers – Joseph Abood and Scott Coffee – described their client being in a “rough” mental state.
Her next court date is January 20 at 8 a.m. PT.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said prosecutors were considering “a great number” of additional charges against Holloway.
Records in OR show 24-year-old Lakeisha Nicole Holloway changed her name in October to Paris Paradise Morton.
Police said she was homeless and living out of her vehicle – an apparent regression to the former life she’d worked hard to escape.
Her lawyer simply requested a 30-day status check, according to CBS affiliate KLAS in Las Vegas.
A coroner in Nevada says the death of a woman struck by a auto on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk is a homicide.
The sheriff said Holloway was very stoic and did not appear to be “distressed” from her actions.
Speaking in a video about her experience, she said she “beat the odds” by becoming the first person in her immediate family to graduate high school. Her attorneys said today she plans to plead not guilty.
She was featured in a 2012 video produced by the nonprofit Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center, which helps at-risk youths with education and job training.
The U.S. Forest Service hired her to do administrative work in its Portland office.
“I was a scared little girl who knew that there was more to life outside of crime, drug addiction, lower income, alcoholism, being under-educated – all of which I grew up being familiar with”. Holloway joined the agency in 2009 and resigned in 2012, spokesman Glen Sachet said. “I’m a mature younger lady”. Her blood was drawn after she was taken into custody.
“She ended up on the Strip, ‘a place she did not want to be, ‘” a police report quoted her as saying. “It doesn’t answer the surrounding questions”.
People jumped on the auto and banged on its windows, but Holloway kept driving, authorities say.
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Holloway told officers she was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash.
