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LOS ANGELES — A former laborer was sentenced Wednesday to 11 consecutive life prison terms for triggering a 2005 commuter train crash that killed 11 people.
Prosecutors had argued that Juan Manuel Alvarez, 29, intended to kill commuters as part of an attempt to gain attention from his estranged wife when he parked his vehicle on the Metrolink train tracks. But defense attorneys described Alvarez’s actions as part of an aborted suicide attempt that was never meant to harm anyone else.
