Woman charged with murder in Vegas Strip crash

This photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Lakeisha N. Holloway, who …

Lakeisha Holloway, 24, identified as suspect in deadly Las Vegas crash.

She is being held in jail without bail in Sunday’s crash that killed 1 and injured dozens.

Police say Holloway then drove to a nearby hotel where she reportedly admitted to what she did.

“I’m appalled at the callousness of this defendant’s conduct and what appears to be an intentional act”, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said.

The woman killed on the Las Vegas Strip when a driver crashed into pedestrians was recalled by family and her pastor as a loving mother of three daughters and “faithful” new member of a Bible study group.

After a tough childhood that included a interval of homelessness in highschool, Lakeisha Holloway had grow to be an award-profitable highschool graduate and caring mom.

One person died and at least 35 people were injured following the driving rampage along the sidewalk of the city’s famous casino strip.

Police have not released a possible motive. She might have been on her way to Texas to meet with the father of her daughter after the pair had split up some time ago.

An arrest report posted online showed that in her statement to the detectives, Holloway said she had a stressful time on Sunday and was trying to rest and sleep inside her vehicle, but security guards at the properties where she wanted to stop her auto did not allow her to stop there.

Before Holloway became a national story for her reported role in deadly Vegas Strip crash, she was local success story in her hometown in OR having gone from a homeless teen to a multi-scholarship earning first generation college student. Holloway would not explain why she drove onto the sidewalk. Her daughter wasn’t hurt.

Holloway previously lived in OR, where she changed her name in October to Paris Paradise Morton, according to court records.

Since 2010, Holloway had participated in the employment and training program at the nonprofit Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center, which helps at-risk young people earn a high school diploma and get job training.

She appears to have a background of some adversity. Her licence had been suspended back in 2012 by the Oregon DMV and again in 2013 by Portland’s Multnomah County and was never reinstated after that.

“We believed she was attempting to make her way in that direction [Dallas] via Las Vegas”.

Authorities haven’t said anything yet about what might have motivated a woman to drive her auto onto a busy sidewalk along the Las Vegas Strip, but new details emerged Monday about what she told investigators she did before and after the crash.

The crash happened in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood casino-hotels and across from dancing water fountains of the Bellagio hotel-casino where visitors crowd sidewalks as they walk from one casino to another.

People jumped on the automotive and banged on its home windows, however Holloway did not cease driving on the sidewalk, Lombardo stated. The vehicle was fully on the walkway twice, including once when it travelled 200 feet, police said.

A police drug recognition expert on the scene determined Holloway was under the influence of a “stimulant”, but blood test results are pending.

Police continue to investigate the reason behind the crash, the sheriff said.

Holloway was under suicide watch, which raises questions about her mental state, said Scott Coffee, a deputy Clark County public defender appointed to represent her. Child welfare officials were caring for the woman’s daughter, a county spokesman said.