Overview
- Prosecutors have filed two counts of second‑degree murder plus a felony DUI causing injury and reckless driving against Bailee Lynn Rios, and she is being held on roughly $4.1 million bail.
- The collision killed two Metro passengers and injured several others after an SUV traveling the wrong way ran a red light and struck a Line 166 bus, with authorities saying one passenger was fully ejected.
- Investigators say drugs were found in Rios’s vehicle and preliminary tests showed drugs in her system, but a full chemical and toxicology analysis remains underway.
- Rios’s arraignment has been postponed multiple times because she was medically unable to appear in court, arriving by ambulance and being treated for serious injuries sustained in the crash.
- A news helicopter covering the crash later went down nearby killing the crew and one person on the ground, and federal agencies are investigating while the district attorney says he will consider those findings for possible additional charges.