HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A Texas man involved in a fatal accident in Reno County in April of 2017 is scheduled for arraignment Thursday. Benjamin Buzzini will enter his plea in the case. The trial date in the case could also be set.

Buzzini was charged with alternate counts of involuntary manslaughter and a count of second-degree murder. However, Magistrate Judge Cheryl Allen found last year there was insufficient evidence that he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs for one of the manslaughter charges. The state didn’t agree with the judge’s decision. The state dropped the case and refiled it.

During the second preliminary hearing, Reno County District Judge Joe McCarville found probable cause for the case to go to trial on all three counts.

The charges come after emergency personnel were dispatched to the 2100 block of south K-96 Highway around 1:45 a.m. on April 25, 2017, for a single-vehicle fatality accident. Buzzini was driving and his passenger, Stephanie Futral, was killed. Buzzini was badly injured.

Arraignment is Thursday morning at 11 a.m.