The revelation about the murder charges currently pending against Nicole Linton, 37, came in the form of a filing from the Los Angeles nurse’s defense attorneys, who insist their client suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” on moment of the accident.
The LA Times File obtained a detailed account of the suspect’s declining mental state in the build-up to the incident, which claimed the lives of a pregnant mother, her unborn child and one-year-old son, and four others.
Linton, who is originally from Texas, is currently in custody on six counts of murder, which involve the five people as well as the unborn child.
He is being held without bond because prosecutors believe he is a flight risk and a danger to the community.
The filing claims Lindon has “no recollection of the events leading up to her collision” – and paints a picture of a mentally ill woman who has rapidly lost her sanity over the past four years.
In the document, Lindon’s lawyers insist their client was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2018 and blame the suspect’s worsening mental state on her refusal to take prescription medication during the pandemic – after an online therapist told her she was just suffering from stress.
Her condition, they said, would reach a “frightening” point on the day of the crash on August 4, which saw her sister Facetime completely naked just hours before she committed the crime.
Nicole L. Linton, 37, (pictured in court) has been charged with six counts of murder and five counts of involuntary manslaughter
The mangled wreckage of the Mercedes that Lindon was running into is shown here after the crash
Linton’s family, her lawyers wrote, first became aware of her mental health problems in May 2018 when she was working as a nursing student at the University of Texas in her hometown of Houston.
At the time, her sister Camille Linton claimed in a letter to the court included in the deposition that she suffered her first mental breakdown while studying to become a nurse anesthetist.
“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.’
According to Linton’s sister, the breakdown, which happened in 2018, saw the suspect running out of her apartment in 2018 while allegedly suffering a panic attack.
When police approached her, the filing states, Linton got into one of the police vehicles and was subsequently arrested for disorderly conduct.
The collision sent the line of cars running towards another gas station over the road before stopping just short of the pumps
Lawyers then wrote how Lyndon would call her family from the police station – however, instead of expressing concern about her condition, Lyndon inexplicably told relatives she was worried about her turtle’s welfare.
A few days after the arrest, Lyndon would contact her family again to express distress after claiming to be possessed by her dead grandmother.
The next day, the heavily redacted documents reveal, Lindon was sent to Ben Taub Psychiatric Hospital after requiring stitches for a head injury she suffered after hitting her head on a glass partition while shouting for the police and the Supreme Court.
During treatment, the lawyers wrote, Lindon sang Bob Marley songs and appeared increasingly unstable.
That’s when Linton was hit with her bipolar diagnosis and prescribed psychiatric medication, the defense says, which she would continue to take for the next year.
Tabia Johnson, who witnessed the crash, snapped a photo of the suspect, Nicole L. Linton (center), commenting that Linton appeared to suffer only minor injuries in the horrific collision
Lyndon is seen here after the crash with blood on her left thigh and left forearm, seen wearing a hospital scrub
An emergency medic directs Lyndon, who can be seen here sitting with a bloody hand
More than a year later, Linton was involuntarily committed to another psych ward — this time because a neighbor called her family after seeing Linton running naked in her apartment complex, attorneys wrote.
Linton’s mental health soon took a turn for the worse, the filing claims, after she stopped taking her prescription bipolar medication during the early days of the pandemic.
The reasoning behind that decision, the attorneys wrote, was because an online therapist Lindon had been talking to remotely during the COVID restrictions told her she only suffered from anxiety.
At this point, in early 2020 and continuing into 2022, Lyndon’s behavior became “increasingly frightening,” her lawyers claimed — to the point where she became inexplicably delusional and suspicious of both her family and colleagues. .
The filing alleges that Linton — who continued to work at the West Los Angeles Medical Center as her health reportedly declined — during this time would become sleep deprived and unreasonably obsessed with cleanliness.
Other strange episodes would see Lindon make inane remarks to her family members and accuse them of stealing from her, her lawyers said.
Linton’s Mercedes drove past a gas station and then crashed into traffic, causing a burning inferno in the Windsor Hills area of Los Angeles
This behavior would continue unchecked until the days just before the Aug. 4 crash, when it became increasingly alarming, the filing reveals.
“In the days and hours leading up to the events of August 4, Nicole’s behavior became increasingly frightening,” her lawyers wrote.
They claimed that during this time Lyndon was in contact with her sister Camille and had repeatedly insisted to her that her colleagues at the hospital were “behaving strangely”.
Nicole Linton’s attorneys, Halim Dhanidina and Jacqueline M. Sparagna, argued in the Aug. 6 filing that the crash served as the culmination of a four-year mental health spiral experienced by the suspect, who doctors wrote is bipolar. They claim she stopped taking her medication during the pandemic, further worsening her mental state
On the day of the accident, Lyndon drove home from the hospital for lunch and FaceTimed her sister, according to court documents.
However, the call itself served as cause for alarm, with Lyndon making the call completely naked, much to the annoyance of her brother, who insisted the behavior was unusual.
Linton then returned to work, but called her sister again at 1:24 p.m. – minutes before the crash – to tell her he was leaving work again.
Her reasoning behind this impromptu outing, the document claims, was that “She told her sister she was flying out to meet her in Houston the next day so she could do her niece’s hair.”
Nathesia Lewis has been identified as one of the six victims of the August 4 Los Angeles fire. Lewis was driving with Lynette Noble when the vehicle burst into flames after being hit by ICU nurse Nicole Linton
Lynette Noble has been identified as one of the six victims of the August 4 Los Angeles fire. Noble and Lewis were driving together when ICU nurse Nicole Linton crashed into their car
Asherey Ryan (above), 23, died in the fiery crash with her one-year-old and unborn child. She was almost at her due date when she died
One-year-old boy Alonzo (pictured) was also killed in the horrific collision between South La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue on August 4.
One-year-old boy Alonzo (pictured) was also killed in the horrific collision between South La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue on August 4.
The unborn child’s father Reynold (right) also died in the crash. He’s here with Asherey
During the call, Linton also strangely claimed she was getting married — and that her sister “must meet her at the altar,” the lawyers wrote.
After the crash, a doctor who treated Lindon wrote that she had “no recollection of the events leading up to her collision,” when analyzing her mental state when she arrived at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center on August 6, two days after the incident.
“The next thing she remembered was laying on the pavement and seeing her car on fire,” she wrote.
The doctor would later determine that Linton has bipolar disorder — and suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash, the filing reveals.
The extent of Linton’s injuries from the crash were not detailed in the report, but the aforementioned doctor wrote that she suffered “fractures” as a result of the incident – despite initial reports that she suffered minor injuries after the collision with her black Mercedes Benz in five victims.
Linton’s lawyers added that the nurse is confined to a wheelchair in prison.
“The medical records are an objective unbiased account of what happened here,” Linton’s attorney, Jacqueline Sparagna, told the Times of the heavily redacted doctor’s diagnosis described in the filing.
Despite the troubling behavior discussed in the document, Lindon’s lawyers wrote that her mental health issues and her “seemingly strange” actions are not enough to keep her in jail.
Linton ordered to be released for evaluation at UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and be allowed to wear an ankle monitor and undergo house arrest or comply with any other conditions determined by the court.
‘Lady. 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.
Otherwise, they conceded, Linton would have to be released on a maximum of $300,000 bail, on the grounds that Linton could afford it.
title: “Icu Nurse Has No Memory Of La Crash And Had Mental Breakdown Before Killing Six Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-14” author: “Anne Davis”
The revelation about the murder charges currently pending against Nicole Linton, 37, came in the form of a filing from the Los Angeles nurse’s defense attorneys, who insist their client suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” on moment of the accident.
The LA Times File obtained a detailed account of the suspect’s declining mental state in the build-up to the incident, which claimed the lives of a pregnant mother, her unborn child and one-year-old son, and four others.
Linton, who is originally from Texas, is currently in custody on six counts of murder, which involve the five people as well as the unborn child.
He is being held without bond because prosecutors believe he is a flight risk and a danger to the community.
The filing claims Lindon has “no recollection of the events leading up to her collision” – and paints a picture of a mentally ill woman who has rapidly lost her sanity over the past four years.
In the document, Lindon’s lawyers insist their client was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2018 and blame the suspect’s worsening mental state on her refusal to take prescription medication during the pandemic – after an online therapist told her she was just suffering from stress.
Her condition, they said, would reach a “frightening” point on the day of the crash on August 4, which saw her sister Facetime completely naked just hours before she committed the crime.
Nicole L. Linton, 37, (pictured in court) has been charged with six counts of murder and five counts of involuntary manslaughter
The mangled wreckage of the Mercedes that Lindon was running into is shown here after the crash
Linton’s family, her lawyers wrote, first became aware of her mental health problems in May 2018 when she was working as a nursing student at the University of Texas in her hometown of Houston.
At the time, her sister Camille Linton claimed in a letter to the court included in the deposition that she suffered her first mental breakdown while studying to become a nurse anesthetist.
“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.’
According to Linton’s sister, the breakdown, which happened in 2018, saw the suspect running out of her apartment in 2018 while allegedly suffering a panic attack.
When police approached her, the filing states, Linton got into one of the police vehicles and was subsequently arrested for disorderly conduct.
The collision sent the line of cars running towards another gas station over the road before stopping just short of the pumps
Lawyers then wrote how Lyndon would call her family from the police station – however, instead of expressing concern about her condition, Lyndon inexplicably told relatives she was worried about her turtle’s welfare.
A few days after the arrest, Lyndon would contact her family again to express distress after claiming to be possessed by her dead grandmother.
The next day, the heavily redacted documents reveal, Lindon was sent to Ben Taub Psychiatric Hospital after requiring stitches for a head injury she suffered after hitting her head on a glass partition while shouting for the police and the Supreme Court.
During treatment, the lawyers wrote, Lindon sang Bob Marley songs and appeared increasingly unstable.
That’s when Linton was hit with her bipolar diagnosis and prescribed psychiatric medication, the defense says, which she would continue to take for the next year.
Tabia Johnson, who witnessed the crash, snapped a photo of the suspect, Nicole L. Linton (center), commenting that Linton appeared to suffer only minor injuries in the horrific collision
Lyndon is seen here after the crash with blood on her left thigh and left forearm, seen wearing a hospital scrub
An emergency medic directs Lyndon, who can be seen here sitting with a bloody hand
More than a year later, Linton was involuntarily committed to another psych ward — this time because a neighbor called her family after seeing Linton running naked in her apartment complex, attorneys wrote.
Linton’s mental health soon took a turn for the worse, the filing claims, after she stopped taking her prescription bipolar medication during the early days of the pandemic.
The reasoning behind that decision, the attorneys wrote, was because an online therapist Lindon had been talking to remotely during the COVID restrictions told her she only suffered from anxiety.
At this point, in early 2020 and continuing into 2022, Lyndon’s behavior became “increasingly frightening,” her lawyers claimed — to the point where she became inexplicably delusional and suspicious of both her family and colleagues. .
The filing alleges that Linton — who continued to work at the West Los Angeles Medical Center as her health reportedly declined — during this time would become sleep deprived and unreasonably obsessed with cleanliness.
Other strange episodes would see Lindon make inane remarks to her family members and accuse them of stealing from her, her lawyers said.
Linton’s Mercedes drove past a gas station and then crashed into traffic, causing a burning inferno in the Windsor Hills area of Los Angeles
This behavior would continue unchecked until the days just before the Aug. 4 crash, when it became increasingly alarming, the filing reveals.
“In the days and hours leading up to the events of August 4, Nicole’s behavior became increasingly frightening,” her lawyers wrote.
They claimed that during this time Lyndon was in contact with her sister Camille and had repeatedly insisted to her that her colleagues at the hospital were “behaving strangely”.
Nicole Linton’s attorneys, Halim Dhanidina and Jacqueline M. Sparagna, argued in the Aug. 6 filing that the crash served as the culmination of a four-year mental health spiral experienced by the suspect, who doctors wrote is bipolar. They claim she stopped taking her medication during the pandemic, further worsening her mental state
On the day of the accident, Lyndon drove home from the hospital for lunch and FaceTimed her sister, according to court documents.
However, the call itself served as cause for alarm, with Lyndon making the call completely naked, much to the annoyance of her brother, who insisted the behavior was unusual.
Linton then returned to work, but called her sister again at 1:24 p.m. – minutes before the crash – to tell her he was leaving work again.
Her reasoning behind this impromptu outing, the document claims, was that “She told her sister she was flying out to meet her in Houston the next day so she could do her niece’s hair.”
Nathesia Lewis has been identified as one of the six victims of the August 4 Los Angeles fire. Lewis was driving with Lynette Noble when the vehicle burst into flames after being hit by ICU nurse Nicole Linton
Lynette Noble has been identified as one of the six victims of the August 4 Los Angeles fire. Noble and Lewis were driving together when ICU nurse Nicole Linton crashed into their car
Asherey Ryan (above), 23, died in the fiery crash with her one-year-old and unborn child. She was almost at her due date when she died
One-year-old boy Alonzo (pictured) was also killed in the horrific collision between South La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue on August 4.
One-year-old boy Alonzo (pictured) was also killed in the horrific collision between South La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue on August 4.
The unborn child’s father Reynold (right) also died in the crash. He’s here with Asherey
During the call, Linton also strangely claimed she was getting married — and that her sister “must meet her at the altar,” the lawyers wrote.
After the crash, a doctor who treated Lindon wrote that she had “no recollection of the events leading up to her collision,” when analyzing her mental state when she arrived at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center on August 6, two days after the incident.
“The next thing she remembered was laying on the pavement and seeing her car on fire,” she wrote.
The doctor would later determine that Linton has bipolar disorder — and suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash, the filing reveals.
The extent of Linton’s injuries from the crash were not detailed in the report, but the aforementioned doctor wrote that she suffered “fractures” as a result of the incident – despite initial reports that she suffered minor injuries after the collision with her black Mercedes Benz in five victims.
Linton’s lawyers added that the nurse is confined to a wheelchair in prison.
“The medical records are an objective unbiased account of what happened here,” Linton’s attorney, Jacqueline Sparagna, told the Times of the heavily redacted doctor’s diagnosis described in the filing.
Despite the troubling behavior discussed in the document, Lindon’s lawyers wrote that her mental health issues and her “seemingly strange” actions are not enough to keep her in jail.
Linton ordered to be released for evaluation at UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and be allowed to wear an ankle monitor and undergo house arrest or comply with any other conditions determined by the court.
‘Lady. 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.
Otherwise, they conceded, Linton would have to be released on a maximum of $300,000 bail, on the grounds that Linton could afford it.
title: “Icu Nurse Has No Memory Of La Crash And Had Mental Breakdown Before Killing Six Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-14” author: “Hershel Bradshaw”
The revelation about the murder charges currently pending against Nicole Linton, 37, came in the form of a filing from the Los Angeles nurse’s defense attorneys, who insist their client suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” on moment of the accident.
The LA Times File obtained a detailed account of the suspect’s declining mental state in the build-up to the incident, which claimed the lives of a pregnant mother, her unborn child and one-year-old son, and four others.
Linton, who is originally from Texas, is currently in custody on six counts of murder, which involve the five people as well as the unborn child.
He is being held without bond because prosecutors believe he is a flight risk and a danger to the community.
The filing claims Lindon has “no recollection of the events leading up to her collision” – and paints a picture of a mentally ill woman who has rapidly lost her sanity over the past four years.
In the document, Lindon’s lawyers insist their client was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2018 and blame the suspect’s worsening mental state on her refusal to take prescription medication during the pandemic – after an online therapist told her she was just suffering from stress.
Her condition, they said, would reach a “frightening” point on the day of the crash on August 4, which saw her sister Facetime completely naked just hours before she committed the crime.
Nicole L. Linton, 37, (pictured in court) has been charged with six counts of murder and five counts of involuntary manslaughter
The mangled wreckage of the Mercedes that Lindon was running into is shown here after the crash
Linton’s family, her lawyers wrote, first became aware of her mental health problems in May 2018 when she was working as a nursing student at the University of Texas in her hometown of Houston.
At the time, her sister Camille Linton claimed in a letter to the court included in the deposition that she suffered her first mental breakdown while studying to become a nurse anesthetist.
“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.’
According to Linton’s sister, the breakdown, which happened in 2018, saw the suspect running out of her apartment in 2018 while allegedly suffering a panic attack.
When police approached her, the filing states, Linton got into one of the police vehicles and was subsequently arrested for disorderly conduct.
The collision sent the line of cars running towards another gas station over the road before stopping just short of the pumps
Lawyers then wrote how Lyndon would call her family from the police station – however, instead of expressing concern about her condition, Lyndon inexplicably told relatives she was worried about her turtle’s welfare.
A few days after the arrest, Lyndon would contact her family again to express distress after claiming to be possessed by her dead grandmother.
The next day, the heavily redacted documents reveal, Lindon was sent to Ben Taub Psychiatric Hospital after requiring stitches for a head injury she suffered after hitting her head on a glass partition while shouting for the police and the Supreme Court.
During treatment, the lawyers wrote, Lindon sang Bob Marley songs and appeared increasingly unstable.
That’s when Linton was hit with her bipolar diagnosis and prescribed psychiatric medication, the defense says, which she would continue to take for the next year.
Tabia Johnson, who witnessed the crash, snapped a photo of the suspect, Nicole L. Linton (center), commenting that Linton appeared to suffer only minor injuries in the horrific collision
Lyndon is seen here after the crash with blood on her left thigh and left forearm, seen wearing a hospital scrub
An emergency medic directs Lyndon, who can be seen here sitting with a bloody hand
More than a year later, Linton was involuntarily committed to another psych ward — this time because a neighbor called her family after seeing Linton running naked in her apartment complex, attorneys wrote.
Linton’s mental health soon took a turn for the worse, the filing claims, after she stopped taking her prescription bipolar medication during the early days of the pandemic.
The reasoning behind that decision, the attorneys wrote, was because an online therapist Lindon had been talking to remotely during the COVID restrictions told her she only suffered from anxiety.
At this point, in early 2020 and continuing into 2022, Lyndon’s behavior became “increasingly frightening,” her lawyers claimed — to the point where she became inexplicably delusional and suspicious of both her family and colleagues. .
The filing alleges that Linton — who continued to work at the West Los Angeles Medical Center as her health reportedly declined — during this time would become sleep deprived and unreasonably obsessed with cleanliness.
Other strange episodes would see Lindon make inane remarks to her family members and accuse them of stealing from her, her lawyers said.
Linton’s Mercedes drove past a gas station and then crashed into traffic, causing a burning inferno in the Windsor Hills area of Los Angeles
This behavior would continue unchecked until the days just before the Aug. 4 crash, when it became increasingly alarming, the filing reveals.
“In the days and hours leading up to the events of August 4, Nicole’s behavior became increasingly frightening,” her lawyers wrote.
They claimed that during this time Lyndon was in contact with her sister Camille and had repeatedly insisted to her that her colleagues at the hospital were “behaving strangely”.
Nicole Linton’s attorneys, Halim Dhanidina and Jacqueline M. Sparagna, argued in the Aug. 6 filing that the crash served as the culmination of a four-year mental health spiral experienced by the suspect, who doctors wrote is bipolar. They claim she stopped taking her medication during the pandemic, further worsening her mental state
On the day of the accident, Lyndon drove home from the hospital for lunch and FaceTimed her sister, according to court documents.
However, the call itself served as cause for alarm, with Lyndon making the call completely naked, much to the annoyance of her brother, who insisted the behavior was unusual.
Linton then returned to work, but called her sister again at 1:24 p.m. – minutes before the crash – to tell her he was leaving work again.
Her reasoning behind this impromptu outing, the document claims, was that “She told her sister she was flying out to meet her in Houston the next day so she could do her niece’s hair.”
Nathesia Lewis has been identified as one of the six victims of the August 4 Los Angeles fire. Lewis was driving with Lynette Noble when the vehicle burst into flames after being hit by ICU nurse Nicole Linton
Lynette Noble has been identified as one of the six victims of the August 4 Los Angeles fire. Noble and Lewis were driving together when ICU nurse Nicole Linton crashed into their car
Asherey Ryan (above), 23, died in the fiery crash with her one-year-old and unborn child. She was almost at her due date when she died
One-year-old boy Alonzo (pictured) was also killed in the horrific collision between South La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue on August 4.
One-year-old boy Alonzo (pictured) was also killed in the horrific collision between South La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue on August 4.
The unborn child’s father Reynold (right) also died in the crash. He’s here with Asherey
During the call, Linton also strangely claimed she was getting married — and that her sister “must meet her at the altar,” the lawyers wrote.
After the crash, a doctor who treated Lindon wrote that she had “no recollection of the events leading up to her collision,” when analyzing her mental state when she arrived at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center on August 6, two days after the incident.
“The next thing she remembered was laying on the pavement and seeing her car on fire,” she wrote.
The doctor would later determine that Linton has bipolar disorder — and suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash, the filing reveals.
The extent of Linton’s injuries from the crash were not detailed in the report, but the aforementioned doctor wrote that she suffered “fractures” as a result of the incident – despite initial reports that she suffered minor injuries after the collision with her black Mercedes Benz in five victims.
Linton’s lawyers added that the nurse is confined to a wheelchair in prison.
“The medical records are an objective unbiased account of what happened here,” Linton’s attorney, Jacqueline Sparagna, told the Times of the heavily redacted doctor’s diagnosis described in the filing.
Despite the troubling behavior discussed in the document, Lindon’s lawyers wrote that her mental health issues and her “seemingly strange” actions are not enough to keep her in jail.
Linton ordered to be released for evaluation at UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and be allowed to wear an ankle monitor and undergo house arrest or comply with any other conditions determined by the court.
‘Lady. 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.
Otherwise, they conceded, Linton would have to be released on a maximum of $300,000 bail, on the grounds that Linton could afford it.
title: “Icu Nurse Has No Memory Of La Crash And Had Mental Breakdown Before Killing Six Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-14” author: “Joseph Bowen”
The revelation about the murder charges currently pending against Nicole Linton, 37, came in the form of a filing from the Los Angeles nurse’s defense attorneys, who insist their client suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” on moment of the accident.
The LA Times File obtained a detailed account of the suspect’s declining mental state in the build-up to the incident, which claimed the lives of a pregnant mother, her unborn child and one-year-old son, and four others.
Linton, who is originally from Texas, is currently in custody on six counts of murder, which involve the five people as well as the unborn child.
He is being held without bond because prosecutors believe he is a flight risk and a danger to the community.
The filing claims Lindon has “no recollection of the events leading up to her collision” – and paints a picture of a mentally ill woman who has rapidly lost her sanity over the past four years.
In the document, Lindon’s lawyers insist their client was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2018 and blame the suspect’s worsening mental state on her refusal to take prescription medication during the pandemic – after an online therapist told her she was just suffering from stress.
Her condition, they said, would reach a “frightening” point on the day of the crash on August 4, which saw her sister Facetime completely naked just hours before she committed the crime.
Nicole L. Linton, 37, (pictured in court) has been charged with six counts of murder and five counts of involuntary manslaughter
The mangled wreckage of the Mercedes that Lindon was running into is shown here after the crash
Linton’s family, her lawyers wrote, first became aware of her mental health problems in May 2018 when she was working as a nursing student at the University of Texas in her hometown of Houston.
At the time, her sister Camille Linton claimed in a letter to the court included in the deposition that she suffered her first mental breakdown while studying to become a nurse anesthetist.
“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.’
According to Linton’s sister, the breakdown, which happened in 2018, saw the suspect running out of her apartment in 2018 while allegedly suffering a panic attack.
When police approached her, the filing states, Linton got into one of the police vehicles and was subsequently arrested for disorderly conduct.
The collision sent the line of cars running towards another gas station over the road before stopping just short of the pumps
Lawyers then wrote how Lyndon would call her family from the police station – however, instead of expressing concern about her condition, Lyndon inexplicably told relatives she was worried about her turtle’s welfare.
A few days after the arrest, Lyndon would contact her family again to express distress after claiming to be possessed by her dead grandmother.
The next day, the heavily redacted documents reveal, Lindon was sent to Ben Taub Psychiatric Hospital after requiring stitches for a head injury she suffered after hitting her head on a glass partition while shouting for the police and the Supreme Court.
During treatment, the lawyers wrote, Lindon sang Bob Marley songs and appeared increasingly unstable.
That’s when Linton was hit with her bipolar diagnosis and prescribed psychiatric medication, the defense says, which she would continue to take for the next year.
Tabia Johnson, who witnessed the crash, snapped a photo of the suspect, Nicole L. Linton (center), commenting that Linton appeared to suffer only minor injuries in the horrific collision
Lyndon is seen here after the crash with blood on her left thigh and left forearm, seen wearing a hospital scrub
An emergency medic directs Lyndon, who can be seen here sitting with a bloody hand
More than a year later, Linton was involuntarily committed to another psych ward — this time because a neighbor called her family after seeing Linton running naked in her apartment complex, attorneys wrote.
Linton’s mental health soon took a turn for the worse, the filing claims, after she stopped taking her prescription bipolar medication during the early days of the pandemic.
The reasoning behind that decision, the attorneys wrote, was because an online therapist Lindon had been talking to remotely during the COVID restrictions told her she only suffered from anxiety.
At this point, in early 2020 and continuing into 2022, Lyndon’s behavior became “increasingly frightening,” her lawyers claimed — to the point where she became inexplicably delusional and suspicious of both her family and colleagues. .
The filing alleges that Linton — who continued to work at the West Los Angeles Medical Center as her health reportedly declined — during this time would become sleep deprived and unreasonably obsessed with cleanliness.
Other strange episodes would see Lindon make inane remarks to her family members and accuse them of stealing from her, her lawyers said.
Linton’s Mercedes drove past a gas station and then crashed into traffic, causing a burning inferno in the Windsor Hills area of Los Angeles
This behavior would continue unchecked until the days just before the Aug. 4 crash, when it became increasingly alarming, the filing reveals.
“In the days and hours leading up to the events of August 4, Nicole’s behavior became increasingly frightening,” her lawyers wrote.
They claimed that during this time Lyndon was in contact with her sister Camille and had repeatedly insisted to her that her colleagues at the hospital were “behaving strangely”.
Nicole Linton’s attorneys, Halim Dhanidina and Jacqueline M. Sparagna, argued in the Aug. 6 filing that the crash served as the culmination of a four-year mental health spiral experienced by the suspect, who doctors wrote is bipolar. They claim she stopped taking her medication during the pandemic, further worsening her mental state
On the day of the accident, Lyndon drove home from the hospital for lunch and FaceTimed her sister, according to court documents.
However, the call itself served as cause for alarm, with Lyndon making the call completely naked, much to the annoyance of her brother, who insisted the behavior was unusual.
Linton then returned to work, but called her sister again at 1:24 p.m. – minutes before the crash – to tell her he was leaving work again.
Her reasoning behind this impromptu outing, the document claims, was that “She told her sister she was flying out to meet her in Houston the next day so she could do her niece’s hair.”
Nathesia Lewis has been identified as one of the six victims of the August 4 Los Angeles fire. Lewis was driving with Lynette Noble when the vehicle burst into flames after being hit by ICU nurse Nicole Linton
Lynette Noble has been identified as one of the six victims of the August 4 Los Angeles fire. Noble and Lewis were driving together when ICU nurse Nicole Linton crashed into their car
Asherey Ryan (above), 23, died in the fiery crash with her one-year-old and unborn child. She was almost at her due date when she died
One-year-old boy Alonzo (pictured) was also killed in the horrific collision between South La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue on August 4.
One-year-old boy Alonzo (pictured) was also killed in the horrific collision between South La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue on August 4.
The unborn child’s father Reynold (right) also died in the crash. He’s here with Asherey
During the call, Linton also strangely claimed she was getting married — and that her sister “must meet her at the altar,” the lawyers wrote.
After the crash, a doctor who treated Lindon wrote that she had “no recollection of the events leading up to her collision,” when analyzing her mental state when she arrived at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center on August 6, two days after the incident.
“The next thing she remembered was laying on the pavement and seeing her car on fire,” she wrote.
The doctor would later determine that Linton has bipolar disorder — and suffered an “apparent loss of consciousness” at the time of the crash, the filing reveals.
The extent of Linton’s injuries from the crash were not detailed in the report, but the aforementioned doctor wrote that she suffered “fractures” as a result of the incident – despite initial reports that she suffered minor injuries after the collision with her black Mercedes Benz in five victims.
Linton’s lawyers added that the nurse is confined to a wheelchair in prison.
“The medical records are an objective unbiased account of what happened here,” Linton’s attorney, Jacqueline Sparagna, told the Times of the heavily redacted doctor’s diagnosis described in the filing.
Despite the troubling behavior discussed in the document, Lindon’s lawyers wrote that her mental health issues and her “seemingly strange” actions are not enough to keep her in jail.
Linton ordered to be released for evaluation at UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and be allowed to wear an ankle monitor and undergo house arrest or comply with any other conditions determined by the court.
‘Lady. 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.
Otherwise, they conceded, Linton would have to be released on a maximum of $300,000 bail, on the grounds that Linton could afford it.
