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unrestrained. five officers face internal disciplinary trials set to begin next month. we learn nor about a college student and promising athlete found dead outside of his college dormitory. walter perez is live with the investigation. reporter: an autopsy is scheduled tomorrow and toxicology tests are pending still a lot of questions surrounding the death of a promising student athlete. funeral arrangements are made for 19-year-old mccray williams a talented lacrosse player playing for lafayette college. we lost a player at lafayette but the facts are not out yet. but that williams death was the end of a chain of events that ended with a medical emergency. they were called to the dormitory where they found williams unconscious and pronounced dead three hours later at lehigh valley hospital with his parents nearby. they released a statement. losing a student is a heart breaking start to the year and that the support of the community will be help to all during th ....
trial react. the charges that were brought should not have been brought. and a good judge made sure that justice was done. bostian was at the controls of amtrak 188 when it crashed in 2015. blair berman had a few words using his cell phone to call family and the state called first responders and a rail expert the contention was that the defense was negligent and pushing back findings that after being distracted by a rock attack on the nearby septa train it was possible that bostian lost situational awareness. but the judge says it was more likely an accident than a crime. brandon bostian is a good man and his heart breaks for the loss of life in this case and the tragedy that occurred but he is innocent. tom klein that represents many of the victims upset by the dismissal saying that eight people are dead. one man is aquadriplegic and others have life disabled injuries all because of what was done by one man, brandon box. patrick murphy was on the train. the ....
difference between negligence and a crime. big difference between an accident and a crime. reporter: bostian had accelerated amtrak train 188 to 106 miles per hour as he entered the frankford curve on the night of may 12th, 2015. the train derailed killing eight people and injuring more than a hundred 50 others. amtrak paid out big bucks in civil judgments but the philly district attorney s office declined to file criminal charges. citing a lack of evidence. legal maneuvering by attorneys representing the family of a crash victim led to the state attorney general filing charges. but the case was challenging from the start. federal crash investigators ruled bostian was not drunk or high or playing with his mobile phone at the time of the crash. they believe he may have have been distracted by reports of vandals throwing rocks at septa trains nearby. look closely at this map from the ntsb hearings in may have last year. bostian had the train going 106 in a 50 miles an h ....
student at lafayette college. the 19-year-old lacrosse recruit was found dead in his dorm room in the lehigh valley. friends are left looking for answers. nbc10 s matt delucia joins us live in the digital operations center. an autopsy is being performed today? reporter: right. and lafayette college still just getting into the fall semester, now dealing with the grief and loss of one of its new students. last night, a large crowd of students there gathered in front of the student center on the quad to remember 19-year-old mccray williams, a freshman lacrosse recruit. he had also been a standout athlete at a boarding school in the boston area. the headmaster of the school in the letter to students said williams died after suffering a severe head injury in a fall. the lehigh coroner found no signs of obvious injury and said williams did not have suicidal tendencies or any known health problems. right now the college is cooperating with investigators. clollege campus ....
victim s sister. reporter: erin this is where derek mills was found shot in the head on the sidewalk just a few blocks away from his house. his friends and family and homicide detectives are looking for information to bring his killer to justice. derek mills was a man larger than life in the eyes of family and coworkers. we called him the gentle giant. extremely gentle. very compassionate and loving. reporter: mills picture and name will be forever connected to the concession stand where he worked for more than 20 years at the wells fargo center. it was on the night he tended the grill during a sixers and flyers game when the 57-year-old father and grandfather was murdered on his way home from work. it was extremely devastating. reporter: a gunman shot him in the head during the robbery in logan. police are looking for this man captured on surveillance video stalking mills before the march 20th shooting. notice the way he walks. the suspect was in a dark-col ....