A 20-year-old Los Angeles woman was arrested in Compton after police say she drove her car into a crowd, seriously injuring four people outside the Underground bar in Redlands.
Los Angeles woman arrested in attempted vehicular homicide outside Redlands bar
A 20-year-old Los Angeles woman was arrested in Compton after police say she drove her car into a crowd, seriously injuring four people outside the Underground bar in Redlands.
A Los Angeles woman was arrested Feb. 25 after police say she drove her car into a crowd of people standing the street outside The Underground bar in Redlands. (Photo: Still shot from bystander video on Feb. 22 in downtown Redlands courtesy @cherpsauto/TikTok)
REDLANDS, Calif. — Redlands Police, with assistance from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Gang and Narcotic Division and the FBI Fugitive Task Force, arrested a 20-year-old Los Angeles woman Wednesday in connection with what authorities described as an attempted vehicular homicide that left four people seriously injured outside a downtown bar.
In a Feb. 26 news release, Redlands Police identified the suspect as Solaya Marie Nickleberry. She was arrested without incident in Compton on Feb. 25.
Witnesses reported an altercation shortly before 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, in front of 19 E. Citrus Ave., home to the Underground bar. Following the altercation, police said Nickleberry got into a 2022 Tesla and drove west on Citrus Avenue before turning around and returning east at a high rate of speed, striking four people standing in the street.
The impact caused the Tesla to hit a curb, police said. At about the same time, an unidentified suspect fired several gunshots, striking the window of one business and the door of another. No injuries were reported from the gunfire.
The Tesla fled west on Citrus Avenue, leaving a trail of leaked fluids. Police later recovered the vehicle after it was found abandoned in a San Bernardino neighborhood.
Video captured by bystanders shows the moment the suspect drove into a group of people standing in the street outside the Underground bar.
Four people were transported to a hospital with major injuries. One victim remains hospitalized, police said.
Nickleberry is being held at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of attempted gross vehicular manslaughter. Bail was set at $800,000.
A former local TV news producer, Stephanie launched CFR in 2023. Originally from Michigan, she’s made Redlands home with her husband and three kids. When she’s not reporting, she’s problem-solving at the climbing gym or trying new local restaurants.
