Nurse Accused Of Killing 6 May Have Passed Out Suffered Mental Breakdown Before Crash

The nurse facing murder charges for allegedly crashing her Mercedes-Benz into traffic this month in Windsor Hills was in a “frightening” mental health crisis in the days, hours and minutes before the crash, new court records show. her lawyers testified. . The revelations came in a comprehensive filing by Nicole Linton’s defense lawyers that offers the most detailed account yet of the events leading up to the horrific crash that killed five people and an unborn child. The motion and attachments, obtained by The Times, detail the nurse’s four-year battle with bipolar disorder and include doctors’ determination soon after the fatal incident that Lindon suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash. . Linton is accused of speeding her sedan down La Brea Avenue toward the busy intersection at Slauson Avenue just after 1:30 p.m. on the 4th of August. Authorities say he was going about 90 miles per hour when he ran a light that was red for nine seconds and hit oncoming traffic. The fiery crash killed five, including a pregnant woman and a baby. The Los Angeles District Attorney charged Linton with six murders, including the unborn child she was pregnant with. Lindon has been held in jail since the crash, with prosecutors claiming she is a flight risk and a danger to the community. They said in a filing that Linton suffered from worsening mental health problems before the crash. “She has no recollection of the events leading up to her collision,” wrote Dr. William Winter on August 6. Winter treated Lyndon at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. “The next thing she remembered was laying on the pavement and seeing her car on fire,” she wrote. Winter wrote that Lindon suffers from bipolar disorder and suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash, according to heavily redacted medical records. Lindon’s family became aware of her mental health issues in May 2018 when she was a nursing student at the University of Texas at Houston, her attorneys wrote. Her sister Camille Linton said in a letter to the court that Nicole’s studies as a nurse anesthetist triggered her first mental health crisis. The story continues “The stress was too much for her and it ‘broke’ her,” wrote Camille Linton. “So begins the journey of Nicole’s 4-year struggle with mental illness.” She ran out of her apartment in May 2018 during a panic attack and when police approached her, jumped into a police car and was arrested for disorderly conduct, her lawyers wrote. Lindon called her family from the police station and was concerned about her turtle’s welfare, according to her lawyers. A few days after this arrest, Lyndon told her family that she believed she had been possessed by her dead grandmother. The next day, at Ben Taub Psychiatric Hospital, Lindon required stitches to her forehead after hitting her head on a glass partition while yelling for the police and the Supreme Court, the attorneys wrote. She sang Bob Marley as medical staff treated her wound, records say. It was at Ben Taub that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed psychiatric medication, the defense says. More than a year later, Linton was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward after a neighbor called her family after seeing Linton running naked around her apartment complex, attorneys said. Lindon’s mental health deteriorated further after she stopped taking her psychiatric medication during the pandemic. Her lawyers said an online therapist told her she was just suffering from anxiety. Lyndon began to act strangely, not sleeping and obsessed with cleaning. She framed family members and accused them of stealing from her, her lawyers said. “In the days and hours leading up to the events of August 4, Nicole’s behavior became increasingly frightening,” her lawyers wrote. Lyndon was in contact with her sister Camille and kept telling her that her colleagues at West Los Angeles Medical Center were “behaving strangely,” her lawyers said. On the day of the accident, Linton went home from the hospital for lunch and FaceTimed her sister completely naked, according to court documents. She then returned to work and called her sister again at 1:24 p.m. saying he was leaving work again minutes before the crash. “She told her sister she was flying out to meet her in Houston the next day so she could do her niece’s hair. She also said she was getting married and her sister would have to meet her at the altar,” wrote Lawyers. . While the extent of Linton’s injuries from the crash was not included in the report, Winter cited “fractures,” and Linton’s attorneys said the traveling nurse uses a wheelchair to get around the jail. “The medical records are an objective unbiased account of what happened here,” Lyndon’s attorney, Jacqueline Sparania, told the Times. But Lyndon’s attorneys argued that Lyndon’s mental health issues and “seemingly strange” actions are no reason to keep her locked up and that Lyndon should be released for evaluation at UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital. They said he would wear an ankle monitor or submit to any other conditions imposed by the court. “Ms. Lindon would be more appropriately housed in a mental health treatment facility where she could be monitored and treated for her illness,” attorneys Halim Dhanidina and Jacqueline Sparagna wrote in the filing Monday. Otherwise, Linton would have to be released on bail of no more than $300,000, the attorneys said, adding that was all Linton could afford. “The safety and well-being of Los Angeles residents is our primary concern,” said Dist. Atty. George Gascon in a statement to The Times. “Under my policy, pretrial detention may be requested on a case-by-case basis to protect public safety and to reasonably ensure the defendant’s return to court.” Lindon is charged by the district attorney with reckless disregard for life in connection with the multi-vehicle crash. He faces five counts of manslaughter in addition to the six murders. “In one moment, Mrs. Linton’s behavior took the lives of six people and injured many others,” Gascon said at a news conference a few days after the accident. The crash killed 23-year-old Asherey Ryan. her almost 1-year-old child, Alonzo Quintero; her boyfriend, Reynold Lester; and their unborn child. Ryan was 8.5 months pregnant when she was killed. Friends Nathesia Lewis, 43, and Lynette Noble, 38, were also killed. “I’ve already cried. I cried. I didn’t sleep a bit. I’ve cried,” Sha’seana Kerr, Ryan’s sister, said the day after the crash. “We have four people to bury.” Linton’s attorneys noted that blood tests showed their client had no drugs or alcohol in her system other than the fentanyl she was given after the crash. They also addressed prosecutors’ arguments that Linton has a history of dangerous driving. “A comprehensive search of insurance records from fifty states reveals that Ms. Linton has no such record,” Linton’s attorneys wrote. “In fact, Ms. Linton has only been determined to be at fault in three previous collisions, the most recent of which occurred in 2014.” They received backups in a letter from a family friend of Linton’s, a former federal prosecutor in Washington Prosecutors said in their filing that Linton’s history of mental illness included “jumping on police cars to jumping out of apartment windows.” But defense attorneys countered that the DA’s office is unfairly overstating “one-time events.” And the apartment window that Lyndon jumped from during a “manic episode” was on the first floor, according to Lyndon’s sister, who submitted a statement along with the defense’s argument for bail. The defense included in its filings character letters from Linton’s family and friends, Beverly Harrison, Lyndon’s mother, said her daughter came to America from Jamaica when she was 10 and grew up without her father. For the past two years, her daughter spent her birthday in Jamaica at her mother’s remote home in the highlands of Jamaica and looked after her. “He is a pious person who trusts him,” Harrison wrote in court. “He’s a person who if he says or does anything he regrets, he’ll come back to say he’s sorry and ask for your forgiveness. My sweet baby I love her, but God loves her better.” One of Lyndon’s five other siblings, Kimberly, said her sister became a traveling nurse during the pandemic and wanted to start medical school next year to become a doctor. “Nicole is all about saving lives and always has empathy and sympathy for every life that is lost and for the family, no matter how many times you see that in this area,” Kimberly Linton wrote. Her brother, Donovan Dallas, who is the deputy superintendent of police in Saint Andrew North in Jamaica, believes his sister did not cause the accident on purpose. She asked to be left in the care of her family. This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

title: “Nurse Accused Of Killing 6 May Have Passed Out Suffered Mental Breakdown Before Crash Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-25” author: “Martin James”

The nurse facing murder charges for allegedly crashing her Mercedes-Benz into traffic this month in Windsor Hills was in a “frightening” mental health crisis in the days, hours and minutes before the crash, new court records show. her lawyers testified. . The revelations came in a comprehensive filing by Nicole Linton’s defense lawyers that offers the most detailed account yet of the events leading up to the horrific crash that killed five people and an unborn child. The motion and attachments, obtained by The Times, detail the nurse’s four-year battle with bipolar disorder and include doctors’ determination soon after the fatal incident that Lindon suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash. . Linton is accused of speeding her sedan down La Brea Avenue toward the busy intersection at Slauson Avenue just after 1:30 p.m. on the 4th of August. Authorities say he was going about 90 miles per hour when he ran a light that was red for nine seconds and hit oncoming traffic. The fiery crash killed five, including a pregnant woman and a baby. The Los Angeles District Attorney charged Linton with six murders, including the unborn child she was pregnant with. Lindon has been held in jail since the crash, with prosecutors claiming she is a flight risk and a danger to the community. They said in a filing that Linton suffered from worsening mental health problems before the crash. “She has no recollection of the events leading up to her collision,” wrote Dr. William Winter on August 6. Winter treated Lyndon at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. “The next thing she remembered was laying on the pavement and seeing her car on fire,” she wrote. Winter wrote that Lindon suffers from bipolar disorder and suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash, according to heavily redacted medical records. Lindon’s family became aware of her mental health issues in May 2018 when she was a nursing student at the University of Texas at Houston, her attorneys wrote. Her sister Camille Linton said in a letter to the court that Nicole’s studies as a nurse anesthetist triggered her first mental health crisis. The story continues “The stress was too much for her and it ‘broke’ her,” wrote Camille Linton. “So begins the journey of Nicole’s 4-year struggle with mental illness.” She ran out of her apartment in May 2018 during a panic attack and when police approached her, jumped into a police car and was arrested for disorderly conduct, her lawyers wrote. Lindon called her family from the police station and was concerned about her turtle’s welfare, according to her lawyers. A few days after this arrest, Lyndon told her family that she believed she had been possessed by her dead grandmother. The next day, at Ben Taub Psychiatric Hospital, Lindon required stitches to her forehead after hitting her head on a glass partition while yelling for the police and the Supreme Court, the attorneys wrote. She sang Bob Marley as medical staff treated her wound, records say. It was at Ben Taub that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed psychiatric medication, the defense says. More than a year later, Linton was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward after a neighbor called her family after seeing Linton running naked around her apartment complex, attorneys said. Lindon’s mental health deteriorated further after she stopped taking her psychiatric medication during the pandemic. Her lawyers said an online therapist told her she was just suffering from anxiety. Lyndon began to act strangely, not sleeping and obsessed with cleaning. She framed family members and accused them of stealing from her, her lawyers said. “In the days and hours leading up to the events of August 4, Nicole’s behavior became increasingly frightening,” her lawyers wrote. Lyndon was in contact with her sister Camille and kept telling her that her colleagues at West Los Angeles Medical Center were “behaving strangely,” her lawyers said. On the day of the accident, Linton went home from the hospital for lunch and FaceTimed her sister completely naked, according to court documents. She then returned to work and called her sister again at 1:24 p.m. saying he was leaving work again minutes before the crash. “She told her sister she was flying out to meet her in Houston the next day so she could do her niece’s hair. She also said she was getting married and her sister would have to meet her at the altar,” wrote Lawyers. . While the extent of Linton’s injuries from the crash was not included in the report, Winter cited “fractures,” and Linton’s attorneys said the traveling nurse uses a wheelchair to get around the jail. “The medical records are an objective unbiased account of what happened here,” Lyndon’s attorney, Jacqueline Sparania, told the Times. But Lyndon’s attorneys argued that Lyndon’s mental health issues and “seemingly strange” actions are no reason to keep her locked up and that Lyndon should be released for evaluation at UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital. They said he would wear an ankle monitor or submit to any other conditions imposed by the court. “Ms. Lindon would be more appropriately housed in a mental health treatment facility where she could be monitored and treated for her illness,” attorneys Halim Dhanidina and Jacqueline Sparagna wrote in the filing Monday. Otherwise, Linton would have to be released on bail of no more than $300,000, the attorneys said, adding that was all Linton could afford. “The safety and well-being of Los Angeles residents is our primary concern,” said Dist. Atty. George Gascon in a statement to The Times. “Under my policy, pretrial detention may be requested on a case-by-case basis to protect public safety and to reasonably ensure the defendant’s return to court.” Lindon is charged by the district attorney with reckless disregard for life in connection with the multi-vehicle crash. He faces five counts of manslaughter in addition to the six murders. “In one moment, Mrs. Linton’s behavior took the lives of six people and injured many others,” Gascon said at a news conference a few days after the accident. The crash killed 23-year-old Asherey Ryan. her almost 1-year-old child, Alonzo Quintero; her boyfriend, Reynold Lester; and their unborn child. Ryan was 8.5 months pregnant when she was killed. Friends Nathesia Lewis, 43, and Lynette Noble, 38, were also killed. “I’ve already cried. I cried. I didn’t sleep a bit. I’ve cried,” Sha’seana Kerr, Ryan’s sister, said the day after the crash. “We have four people to bury.” Linton’s attorneys noted that blood tests showed their client had no drugs or alcohol in her system other than the fentanyl she was given after the crash. They also addressed prosecutors’ arguments that Linton has a history of dangerous driving. “A comprehensive search of insurance records from fifty states reveals that Ms. Linton has no such record,” Linton’s attorneys wrote. “In fact, Ms. Linton has only been determined to be at fault in three previous collisions, the most recent of which occurred in 2014.” They received backups in a letter from a family friend of Linton’s, a former federal prosecutor in Washington Prosecutors said in their filing that Linton’s history of mental illness included “jumping on police cars to jumping out of apartment windows.” But defense attorneys countered that the DA’s office is unfairly overstating “one-time events.” And the apartment window that Lyndon jumped from during a “manic episode” was on the first floor, according to Lyndon’s sister, who submitted a statement along with the defense’s argument for bail. The defense included in its filings character letters from Linton’s family and friends, Beverly Harrison, Lyndon’s mother, said her daughter came to America from Jamaica when she was 10 and grew up without her father. For the past two years, her daughter spent her birthday in Jamaica at her mother’s remote home in the highlands of Jamaica and looked after her. “He is a pious person who trusts him,” Harrison wrote in court. “He’s a person who if he says or does anything he regrets, he’ll come back to say he’s sorry and ask for your forgiveness. My sweet baby I love her, but God loves her better.” One of Lyndon’s five other siblings, Kimberly, said her sister became a traveling nurse during the pandemic and wanted to start medical school next year to become a doctor. “Nicole is all about saving lives and always has empathy and sympathy for every life that is lost and for the family, no matter how many times you see that in this area,” Kimberly Linton wrote. Her brother, Donovan Dallas, who is the deputy superintendent of police in Saint Andrew North in Jamaica, believes his sister did not cause the accident on purpose. She asked to be left in the care of her family. This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

title: “Nurse Accused Of Killing 6 May Have Passed Out Suffered Mental Breakdown Before Crash Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-01” author: “Ryan Childress”

The nurse facing murder charges for allegedly crashing her Mercedes-Benz into traffic this month in Windsor Hills was in a “frightening” mental health crisis in the days, hours and minutes before the crash, new court records show. her lawyers testified. . The revelations came in a comprehensive filing by Nicole Linton’s defense lawyers that offers the most detailed account yet of the events leading up to the horrific crash that killed five people and an unborn child. The motion and attachments, obtained by The Times, detail the nurse’s four-year battle with bipolar disorder and include doctors’ determination soon after the fatal incident that Lindon suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash. . Linton is accused of speeding her sedan down La Brea Avenue toward the busy intersection at Slauson Avenue just after 1:30 p.m. on the 4th of August. Authorities say he was going about 90 miles per hour when he ran a light that was red for nine seconds and hit oncoming traffic. The fiery crash killed five, including a pregnant woman and a baby. The Los Angeles District Attorney charged Linton with six murders, including the unborn child she was pregnant with. Lindon has been held in jail since the crash, with prosecutors claiming she is a flight risk and a danger to the community. They said in a filing that Linton suffered from worsening mental health problems before the crash. “She has no recollection of the events leading up to her collision,” wrote Dr. William Winter on August 6. Winter treated Lyndon at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. “The next thing she remembered was laying on the pavement and seeing her car on fire,” she wrote. Winter wrote that Lindon suffers from bipolar disorder and suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash, according to heavily redacted medical records. Lindon’s family became aware of her mental health issues in May 2018 when she was a nursing student at the University of Texas at Houston, her attorneys wrote. Her sister Camille Linton said in a letter to the court that Nicole’s studies as a nurse anesthetist triggered her first mental health crisis. The story continues “The stress was too much for her and it ‘broke’ her,” wrote Camille Linton. “So begins the journey of Nicole’s 4-year struggle with mental illness.” She ran out of her apartment in May 2018 during a panic attack and when police approached her, jumped into a police car and was arrested for disorderly conduct, her lawyers wrote. Lindon called her family from the police station and was concerned about her turtle’s welfare, according to her lawyers. A few days after this arrest, Lyndon told her family that she believed she had been possessed by her dead grandmother. The next day, at Ben Taub Psychiatric Hospital, Lindon required stitches to her forehead after hitting her head on a glass partition while yelling for the police and the Supreme Court, the attorneys wrote. She sang Bob Marley as medical staff treated her wound, records say. It was at Ben Taub that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed psychiatric medication, the defense says. More than a year later, Linton was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward after a neighbor called her family after seeing Linton running naked around her apartment complex, attorneys said. Lindon’s mental health deteriorated further after she stopped taking her psychiatric medication during the pandemic. Her lawyers said an online therapist told her she was just suffering from anxiety. Lyndon began to act strangely, not sleeping and obsessed with cleaning. She framed family members and accused them of stealing from her, her lawyers said. “In the days and hours leading up to the events of August 4, Nicole’s behavior became increasingly frightening,” her lawyers wrote. Lyndon was in contact with her sister Camille and kept telling her that her colleagues at West Los Angeles Medical Center were “behaving strangely,” her lawyers said. On the day of the accident, Linton went home from the hospital for lunch and FaceTimed her sister completely naked, according to court documents. She then returned to work and called her sister again at 1:24 p.m. saying he was leaving work again minutes before the crash. “She told her sister she was flying out to meet her in Houston the next day so she could do her niece’s hair. She also said she was getting married and her sister would have to meet her at the altar,” wrote Lawyers. . While the extent of Linton’s injuries from the crash was not included in the report, Winter cited “fractures,” and Linton’s attorneys said the traveling nurse uses a wheelchair to get around the jail. “The medical records are an objective unbiased account of what happened here,” Lyndon’s attorney, Jacqueline Sparania, told the Times. But Lyndon’s attorneys argued that Lyndon’s mental health issues and “seemingly strange” actions are no reason to keep her locked up and that Lyndon should be released for evaluation at UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital. They said he would wear an ankle monitor or submit to any other conditions imposed by the court. “Ms. Lindon would be more appropriately housed in a mental health treatment facility where she could be monitored and treated for her illness,” attorneys Halim Dhanidina and Jacqueline Sparagna wrote in the filing Monday. Otherwise, Linton would have to be released on bail of no more than $300,000, the attorneys said, adding that was all Linton could afford. “The safety and well-being of Los Angeles residents is our primary concern,” said Dist. Atty. George Gascon in a statement to The Times. “Under my policy, pretrial detention may be requested on a case-by-case basis to protect public safety and to reasonably ensure the defendant’s return to court.” Lindon is charged by the district attorney with reckless disregard for life in connection with the multi-vehicle crash. He faces five counts of manslaughter in addition to the six murders. “In one moment, Mrs. Linton’s behavior took the lives of six people and injured many others,” Gascon said at a news conference a few days after the accident. The crash killed 23-year-old Asherey Ryan. her almost 1-year-old child, Alonzo Quintero; her boyfriend, Reynold Lester; and their unborn child. Ryan was 8.5 months pregnant when she was killed. Friends Nathesia Lewis, 43, and Lynette Noble, 38, were also killed. “I’ve already cried. I cried. I didn’t sleep a bit. I’ve cried,” Sha’seana Kerr, Ryan’s sister, said the day after the crash. “We have four people to bury.” Linton’s attorneys noted that blood tests showed their client had no drugs or alcohol in her system other than the fentanyl she was given after the crash. They also addressed prosecutors’ arguments that Linton has a history of dangerous driving. “A comprehensive search of insurance records from fifty states reveals that Ms. Linton has no such record,” Linton’s attorneys wrote. “In fact, Ms. Linton has only been determined to be at fault in three previous collisions, the most recent of which occurred in 2014.” They received backups in a letter from a family friend of Linton’s, a former federal prosecutor in Washington Prosecutors said in their filing that Linton’s history of mental illness included “jumping on police cars to jumping out of apartment windows.” But defense attorneys countered that the DA’s office is unfairly overstating “one-time events.” And the apartment window that Lyndon jumped from during a “manic episode” was on the first floor, according to Lyndon’s sister, who submitted a statement along with the defense’s argument for bail. The defense included in its filings character letters from Linton’s family and friends, Beverly Harrison, Lyndon’s mother, said her daughter came to America from Jamaica when she was 10 and grew up without her father. For the past two years, her daughter spent her birthday in Jamaica at her mother’s remote home in the highlands of Jamaica and looked after her. “He is a pious person who trusts him,” Harrison wrote in court. “He’s a person who if he says or does anything he regrets, he’ll come back to say he’s sorry and ask for your forgiveness. My sweet baby I love her, but God loves her better.” One of Lyndon’s five other siblings, Kimberly, said her sister became a traveling nurse during the pandemic and wanted to start medical school next year to become a doctor. “Nicole is all about saving lives and always has empathy and sympathy for every life that is lost and for the family, no matter how many times you see that in this area,” Kimberly Linton wrote. Her brother, Donovan Dallas, who is the deputy superintendent of police in Saint Andrew North in Jamaica, believes his sister did not cause the accident on purpose. She asked to be left in the care of her family. This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

title: “Nurse Accused Of Killing 6 May Have Passed Out Suffered Mental Breakdown Before Crash Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-19” author: “Shirley Rufus”

The nurse facing murder charges for allegedly crashing her Mercedes-Benz into traffic this month in Windsor Hills was in a “frightening” mental health crisis in the days, hours and minutes before the crash, new court records show. her lawyers testified. . The revelations came in a comprehensive filing by Nicole Linton’s defense lawyers that offers the most detailed account yet of the events leading up to the horrific crash that killed five people and an unborn child. The motion and attachments, obtained by The Times, detail the nurse’s four-year battle with bipolar disorder and include doctors’ determination soon after the fatal incident that Lindon suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash. . Linton is accused of speeding her sedan down La Brea Avenue toward the busy intersection at Slauson Avenue just after 1:30 p.m. on the 4th of August. Authorities say he was going about 90 miles per hour when he ran a light that was red for nine seconds and hit oncoming traffic. The fiery crash killed five, including a pregnant woman and a baby. The Los Angeles District Attorney charged Linton with six murders, including the unborn child she was pregnant with. Lindon has been held in jail since the crash, with prosecutors claiming she is a flight risk and a danger to the community. They said in a filing that Linton suffered from worsening mental health problems before the crash. “She has no recollection of the events leading up to her collision,” wrote Dr. William Winter on August 6. Winter treated Lyndon at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. “The next thing she remembered was laying on the pavement and seeing her car on fire,” she wrote. Winter wrote that Lindon suffers from bipolar disorder and suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash, according to heavily redacted medical records. Lindon’s family became aware of her mental health issues in May 2018 when she was a nursing student at the University of Texas at Houston, her attorneys wrote. Her sister Camille Linton said in a letter to the court that Nicole’s studies as a nurse anesthetist triggered her first mental health crisis. The story continues “The stress was too much for her and it ‘broke’ her,” wrote Camille Linton. “So begins the journey of Nicole’s 4-year struggle with mental illness.” She ran out of her apartment in May 2018 during a panic attack and when police approached her, jumped into a police car and was arrested for disorderly conduct, her lawyers wrote. Lindon called her family from the police station and was concerned about her turtle’s welfare, according to her lawyers. A few days after this arrest, Lyndon told her family that she believed she had been possessed by her dead grandmother. The next day, at Ben Taub Psychiatric Hospital, Lindon required stitches to her forehead after hitting her head on a glass partition while yelling for the police and the Supreme Court, the attorneys wrote. She sang Bob Marley as medical staff treated her wound, records say. It was at Ben Taub that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed psychiatric medication, the defense says. More than a year later, Linton was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward after a neighbor called her family after seeing Linton running naked around her apartment complex, attorneys said. Lindon’s mental health deteriorated further after she stopped taking her psychiatric medication during the pandemic. Her lawyers said an online therapist told her she was just suffering from anxiety. Lyndon began to act strangely, not sleeping and obsessed with cleaning. She framed family members and accused them of stealing from her, her lawyers said. “In the days and hours leading up to the events of August 4, Nicole’s behavior became increasingly frightening,” her lawyers wrote. Lyndon was in contact with her sister Camille and kept telling her that her colleagues at West Los Angeles Medical Center were “behaving strangely,” her lawyers said. On the day of the accident, Linton went home from the hospital for lunch and FaceTimed her sister completely naked, according to court documents. She then returned to work and called her sister again at 1:24 p.m. saying he was leaving work again minutes before the crash. “She told her sister she was flying out to meet her in Houston the next day so she could do her niece’s hair. She also said she was getting married and her sister would have to meet her at the altar,” wrote Lawyers. . While the extent of Linton’s injuries from the crash was not included in the report, Winter cited “fractures,” and Linton’s attorneys said the traveling nurse uses a wheelchair to get around the jail. “The medical records are an objective unbiased account of what happened here,” Lyndon’s attorney, Jacqueline Sparania, told the Times. But Lyndon’s attorneys argued that Lyndon’s mental health issues and “seemingly strange” actions are no reason to keep her locked up and that Lyndon should be released for evaluation at UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital. They said he would wear an ankle monitor or submit to any other conditions imposed by the court. “Ms. Lindon would be more appropriately housed in a mental health treatment facility where she could be monitored and treated for her illness,” attorneys Halim Dhanidina and Jacqueline Sparagna wrote in the filing Monday. Otherwise, Linton would have to be released on bail of no more than $300,000, the attorneys said, adding that was all Linton could afford. “The safety and well-being of Los Angeles residents is our primary concern,” said Dist. Atty. George Gascon in a statement to The Times. “Under my policy, pretrial detention may be requested on a case-by-case basis to protect public safety and to reasonably ensure the defendant’s return to court.” Lindon is charged by the district attorney with reckless disregard for life in connection with the multi-vehicle crash. He faces five counts of manslaughter in addition to the six murders. “In one moment, Mrs. Linton’s behavior took the lives of six people and injured many others,” Gascon said at a news conference a few days after the accident. The crash killed 23-year-old Asherey Ryan. her almost 1-year-old child, Alonzo Quintero; her boyfriend, Reynold Lester; and their unborn child. Ryan was 8.5 months pregnant when she was killed. Friends Nathesia Lewis, 43, and Lynette Noble, 38, were also killed. “I’ve already cried. I cried. I didn’t sleep a bit. I’ve cried,” Sha’seana Kerr, Ryan’s sister, said the day after the crash. “We have four people to bury.” Linton’s attorneys noted that blood tests showed their client had no drugs or alcohol in her system other than the fentanyl she was given after the crash. They also addressed prosecutors’ arguments that Linton has a history of dangerous driving. “A comprehensive search of insurance records from fifty states reveals that Ms. Linton has no such record,” Linton’s attorneys wrote. “In fact, Ms. Linton has only been determined to be at fault in three previous collisions, the most recent of which occurred in 2014.” They received backups in a letter from a family friend of Linton’s, a former federal prosecutor in Washington Prosecutors said in their filing that Linton’s history of mental illness included “jumping on police cars to jumping out of apartment windows.” But defense attorneys countered that the DA’s office is unfairly overstating “one-time events.” And the apartment window that Lyndon jumped from during a “manic episode” was on the first floor, according to Lyndon’s sister, who submitted a statement along with the defense’s argument for bail. The defense included in its filings character letters from Linton’s family and friends, Beverly Harrison, Lyndon’s mother, said her daughter came to America from Jamaica when she was 10 and grew up without her father. For the past two years, her daughter spent her birthday in Jamaica at her mother’s remote home in the highlands of Jamaica and looked after her. “He is a pious person who trusts him,” Harrison wrote in court. “He’s a person who if he says or does anything he regrets, he’ll come back to say he’s sorry and ask for your forgiveness. My sweet baby I love her, but God loves her better.” One of Lyndon’s five other siblings, Kimberly, said her sister became a traveling nurse during the pandemic and wanted to start medical school next year to become a doctor. “Nicole is all about saving lives and always has empathy and sympathy for every life that is lost and for the family, no matter how many times you see that in this area,” Kimberly Linton wrote. Her brother, Donovan Dallas, who is the deputy superintendent of police in Saint Andrew North in Jamaica, believes his sister did not cause the accident on purpose. She asked to be left in the care of her family. This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.