Woman pleads not guilty in fatal Vegas Strip sidewalk crash
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police and emergency crews responded to the scene of a Dec. 2015 incident along a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk. Lakeisha Nicole Holloway today pleaded not guilty in Nevada state court to charges that she intentionally drove onto a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk, killing one pedestrian and injuring at least 34 others less than a week before Christmas 2015.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lakeisha Nicole Holloway, accused of intentionally plowing a car into pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk, appeared, on March 11, during her competency hearing at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Holloway pleaded not guilty in Nevada state court, today, to charges that she intentionally drove onto a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk, killing one pedestrian and injuring at least 34 others less than a week before Christmas 2015.
LAS VEGAS >> A woman pleaded not guilty in Nevada state court today to charges that she intentionally drove onto a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk, killing one pedestrian and injuring at least 34 others less than a week before Christmas 2015.
Lakeisha Nicole Holloway, 26, entered her plea after a Las Vegas judge recently ruled her competent to stand trial, following months of treatment at a state psychiatric center. Holloway, a former resident of Portland, Oregon, faces charges of murder, attempted murder and battery with a deadly weapon.
Holloway is accused of slamming her 1996 Oldsmobile sedan carrying her 3-year-old daughter into a crowd of pedestrians on the Strip on Dec. 20, 2015. Holloway told police that she and her daughter had been in Las Vegas for about a week before the crash, living in the car that she parked at casinos where security guards kept making her move.
The crash happened in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood casino-hotels and across from dancing water fountains of the Bellagio hotel-casino. Hordes of visitors to the busy stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard walk from one casino to another.
Tests showed Holloway had more than the Nevada legal limit of pot and its metabolic byproducts in her blood when she was arrested shortly after the crash.
Holloway faces 71 felonies. A child endangerment count stems from allegations that she had her 3-year-old daughter in the back seat at the time of the crash. The girl wasn’t injured.
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A judge in March ordered Holloway to receive treatment at Nevada’s Lakes Crossing state psychiatric center in Sparks.
Jessica Valenzuela, 32, of Buckeye, Arizona, died in the crash. The injured were tourists from California, Colorado, Florida, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington state, Mexico and Canada.
Records in Oregon show Holloway changed her name to Paris Paradise Morton in October 2015.
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Sad, metro should have let the mother sleep it off…….before chasing her down the stripe. Like Donald said the media/newspaper company tell part of the story and not the whole story.
Ok.. she’s guilty as sin.
Property owners had every right to ask her to leave the premises. It was her actions that unfortunately caused the death of one & injuries to others. Sad that she has a mental illness & reproduced.