NEWS DEPARTMENT OF CORONER
County of Los Angeles
Anthony T. Hernandez, Director
Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D.
Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner
1104 North Mission Road
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Contact:
Craig Harvey, F-ABMDI
Chief Coroner Investigator
(323) 343-0783
RE: Chatsworth Metrolink Train Fatalities
The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner has recovered the following decedents from the site of the Metrolink Train crash in Chatsworth, CA that occurred on 09/12/2008.
None of the decedents’ have yet been examined by a Deputy Medical Examiner; therefore no cause of death has yet been established for any of the victims.
Case Number Name
2008-06417 DESHA, Spree DOB 11/04/1972
2008-06423 AIKEN, Christopher DOB 10/24/1969
2008-06424 HSIEH, Kari
2008-06425 VILLALOBOS, Maria Elena DOB 01/04/1990
2008-06426 BUCKLEY, Alan Lloyd DOB 09/22/1948
2008-06427 RAMATA, Donna Lynn DOB 10/13/1958
2008-06428 ARNOLD, Dennis V. DOB 11/13/1932
2008-06429 PECK, Charles E. DOB 02/19/1950
2008-06430 MACIAS, Manuel DOB 09/28/1976
2008-06431 CHAO, Yi DOB 06/12/1937
2008-06432 FULLER, Walter Arney DOB 01/09/1954
2008-06433 (Male, Next of Kin not notified)
2008-06434 VYAS, Atul DOB 06/06/1988
DEPARTMENT OF CORONER
PRESS RELEASE
09/13/2008
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Case Number Name
2008-06435 MAGDELENO, Aida DOB 06/05/1989
2008-06436 POMPEL, Howard Barry DOB 03/27/1939
2008-06437 KISH II, Ernest Stephen DOB 02/22/1961
2008-06438 (Female, Next of Kin not notified)
2008-06448 (Male, Next of Kin not notified)
2008-06449 BROWER, Dean Lafoy DOB 06/04/1957
2008-06450 (Unidentified Male)
2008-06451 LINTNER, Gregory DOB 06/13/1960
2008-06452 HAMMERSLY, Michael A. DOB 06/02/1963
2008-06453 HEFTER, Jacob Alan DOB 07/06/1990
2008-06454 SOUSER, Doyle Jay DOB 10/18/1951
CRH 09/13/2008