20-year-old woman arrested in violent crash that injured 4 after Redlands bar fight

REDLANDS, Calif. (KABC) -- A 20-year-old woman has been arrested after a violent crash left four people seriously injured outside a bar in downtown Redlands.

Solaya Marie Nickleberry of Los Angeles is being held on $800,000 bond on suspicion of attempted gross vehicular manslaughter.

She was taken into custody on Wednesday in the city of Compton.

According to the Redlands Police Department, witnesses reported an altercation between several people just before 1:30 a.m. Sunday in front of 19 E. Citrus Ave.

"Following the altercation, one of the involved parties, later identified as Nickleberry, got into a 2022 Tesla and drove away west on Citrus Avenue," said police in a statement. "A few moments later, Nickleberry turned around and sped back east, striking four people who were standing in the street in front of the bar."

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Gunfire erupted after a person involved in a fight got into a car and plowed into a crowd of people standing on the street outside a Redlands bar, authorities said.

According to police, Nickleberry then crashed, and at the same time, someone fired several gunshots, striking the window of one business and the door of another.

No one was shot.

Meantime, the four people struck by the Tesla were sent to the hospital with major injuries, one of whom remains hospitalized.

Police said the Tesla left a trail of "leaked fluids" and was later found abandoned in a San Bernardino neighborhood.

The incident remains under investigation.