Driver Indicted in Crash That Killed Los Angeles Sheriff’s Recruit

Law enforcement personnel take a closer look at an SUV involved in injuring more than two dozen deputy recruits in a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department training academy class in Whittier, Calif., on Nov. 16, 2022. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

NORWALK, Calif.—A Diamond Bar man who was charged last year with vehicular manslaughter and other counts for allegedly ramming his car into a group of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recruits on a training run in the Whittier area, fatally injuring one of them, has been indicted on the same charges, prosecutors said, and is facing new trial Jan. 24.

Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez, 23, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the charges included in the new indictment. He is scheduled to appear in a Norwalk courtroom Feb. 9 for a pretrial hearing, according to the District Attorney’s Office. He remains free on $500,000 bail.