SOUTH WHITTIER, Calif.—One of the four Los Angeles County law enforcement cadets critically injured when they were struck by an SUV during a training run in South Whittier Nov. 16 has suffered medical setbacks and is in “grave condition” and is on life support, sheriff’s officials said Nov. 21.
The cadet was identified as Alejandro Martinez by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Information Bureau, which asked the public to “keep him and his family in your prayers.”
Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez talks with law enforcement after driving his SUV into recruits on a training run in Whittier, Calif., Nov. 16, 2022. (Christine Periman via AP)
Meanwhile, an attorney for the man who swerved his SUV into the group of cadets said the crash was an accident caused when the man fell asleep behind the wheel. Attorney Alexandra Kazarian told Los Angeles Magazine that Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez, 22, of Diamond Bar, comes from a law enforcement family and has “zero animosity toward law enforcement.”…