Metrolink Train 'Derailer' Found Guilty of Murder

After weeks and weeks of testimony, the verdict is finally in for Juan Alvarez, the man who left his SUV on Metrolink train tracks in Glendale causing one train to derail and crash into another train back in January 2005. 11 people were killed and another 180 were injured. Alvarez said he was only trying to kill himself and that the resulting train crash was not intended. The jury didn't think so and found him guilty of 11 counts of first-degree murder and one count of arson (he doused his car with gas).

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