Driver is released after arrest in deputy recruit crash that sheriff called ‘deliberate act’
Twenty-five sheriff’s recruits out on an early morning training run were injured in the crash Wednesday in South Whittier. “We just want to make sure it’s properly presented.” Earlier Thursday, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in an interview with NewsNation that investigators “have developed probable cause to believe it was intentional.” “They went through an exhaustive interview process with everyone involved, with the video surveillance, the statements from the recruits, the physical evidence they have and what they got from the suspect himself, and they were able to form the opinion this was a deliberate act,” he told the news station. Twenty-five sheriff’s recruits were injured in the crash, authorities said. The recruits were running in four columns, accompanied by drill instructors and two black-and-white radio cars, when a Honda CRV drove into the group about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday near the sheriff’s STARS Center Academy in the 10600 block of Mills Avenue, authorities said.
Why was driver suspected of crashing into 25 sheriff’s recruits suddenly set free?
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