pennsylvania's top prosecutor has charged a speeding amtrak engineer with inflicting a catastrophe, 8 counts of involuntary manslaughter and different crimes in a 2015 derailment that got here after he expanded to 106 mph in a 50 mph region.
prosecutors said friday they have been in talks with engineer brandon bostian's lawyer to have him surrender and be arraigned on the expenses. a decide says bostian lives in massachusetts. bostian's attorney hasn't again messages in search of remark this week.
attorney wellknown josh shapiro has improved on charges filed an afternoon earlier by means of a philadelphia judge asked to approve a private criminal criticism sought through the own family of a girl killed within the can also 12, 2015, crash. the choose ordered city prosecutors to price bostian with misdemeanors.
philadelphia prosecutors had earlier declined to charge bostian, mentioning insufficient evidence. the crash killed eight people and injured about 2 hundred others.
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ed to expose the engineer's surname is bostian, no longer bastian.