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A Los Angeles jury convicted Nicole Linton of six counts of second-degree murder in the Windsor Hills crash.
On Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, a Los Angeles County jury found Nicole Lorraine Linton guilty of six counts of second-degree murder in the Aug. 4, 2022, high-speed crash at La Brea and Slauson avenues in Windsor Hills. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 1. A conviction is a finding of guilt. It is not the prison term.
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A jury’s guilty verdict on murder counts is a finding of guilt. It is not the sentence, and Dec. 1 is still ahead. On Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, after about three hours of deliberations, a Los Angeles County jury convicted Nicole Lorraine Linton on six counts of second-degree murder in the Aug. 4, 2022, crash that killed six people at La Brea and Slauson in Windsor Hills. ABC7, FOX 11, and NBC Los Angeles reported the verdict. She remains held without bail pending sentencing.
On Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, a Los Angeles County jury returned guilty verdicts on six counts of second-degree murder against Nicole Lorraine Linton in the Aug. 4, 2022, multi-vehicle crash at La Brea and Slauson avenues in Windsor Hills. ABC7, FOX 11, and NBC Los Angeles reported that jurors deliberated about three hours. Sentencing is set for Dec. 1. A guilty verdict is a finding of guilt. It is not the judgment of sentence until the court imposes one.
Prosecutors told jurors Linton drove a Mercedes through a red light at extreme speed — coverage cited electronic data and trial evidence putting the speed around 130 mph in a lower posted zone — and triggered a fiery crash. The dead, as named in ABC7 and NBC Los Angeles reporting, included Asherey Ryan, who was pregnant, her fiancé Reynold Lester, their infant son Alonzo Quintero, the couple’s unborn child Armani, Nathesia Lewis, and Lynette Noble. Those names come from the court coverage. They are not new findings beyond the verdict.
The defense argued Linton suffered a seizure and was not conscious of criminal driving; prosecutors argued she was conscious, angry after leaving work, and chose to drive in a way that showed implied malice. Linton did not testify. FOX 11 reported she faces a statutory exposure measured in decades to life under California law after six second-degree murder counts. Exposure is not the sentence. Dec. 1 is when the court is scheduled to impose judgment. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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