Critically injured Amtrak passenger making progress
By Sam Gross, Reno Gazette-Journal
In an approximately 31-minute timef rame, somewhere along the Amtrak route through the Sierra Nevada mountain range between Reno and Truckee, Aaron Salazar mysteriously disappeared from his moving train.
Ten days after the 22-year-old Portland State University student was found critically injured feet from the train tracks on the edge of Truckee, his family remains at odds with Amtrak’s police force, which is handling the investigation.
His family says Salazar, a gay man, was attacked — the victim of a hate crime.
