Years before police said she intentionally drove onto a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk, killing one person and injuring 37 others, Lakeisha Holloway was publicly honored for turning her life around.
"Boy, have I come a long ways," Holloway said in a 2012 video by the Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center, which helps at-risk youth with education and career training.
"I
was a scared little girl who knew that there was more to life outside
of crime, drug addiction, lower income, alcoholism, being under-educated
-- all of which I grew up being familiar with."
Thanks to the nonprofit, she went from homelessness to a job with the federal government and "living the grand life."But now the 24 years old faces charges of murder leaving the scene of an accident, and
child abuse or neglect after allegedly plowing into dozens of
pedestrians with her 3-year-old daughter inside her car.
What would cause a woman who showed so much promise to do something so savage, as police claim?
"She
would not explain why she drove onto the sidewalk but remembered a body
bouncing off of her windshield, breaking it," authorities said in her
arrest report.so sad!
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