Gotnews.com has independently identified the engineer at the center of the Amtrak crash that has killed at least seven.

Brandon Bostian is the 32-year-old gay man who lawyered up after a deadly derailment in Philadelphia. The train was reportedly going twice the speed limit.

ABC 6 previously reported that “Brandon Boshan,” not Brandon Bostian, was to blame for the deadly crash. (They have since taken down the link.)

Bostian is a gay activist who previously worked at Target as a cashier before joining Amtrak, according to his LinkedIn.

The comments here confirm GotNews.com’s scoop.

Comments here seem to confirm @ChuckCJohnson scoop that this was the engineer: https://t.co/bGY0laFR4q

— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) May 13, 2015

Here’s his picture on his LinkedIn profile.

 

Here are Bostian’s likes on Facebook.

 

Bostian was also involved in a gay marriage protest in 2012, according to this Midtown Gazette story.

Brandon Bostian, a recent transplant to New York, attended the event. Bostian was active in the Proposition 8 fight, which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman, in San Francisco. While he is still interested in working for marriage equality, Bostian admitted that he is less enthusiastic this time around. “It’s kind of insulting to have to beg people for my right to marry,” he said. “I feel like we shouldn’t even have to have this fight.”

Here are his MySpace photos.