Luis Fernando Torres

Luis Fernando Torres, 20, has been behind bars since Aug. 13, 2020, three days after he allegedly drunkenly crashed his Mustang into BPD Officer Sheena Yarbrough-Powell, killing her.

Luis Fernando Torres, 20, has been behind bars since Aug. 13, 2020, three days after he allegedly drunkenly crashed his Mustang into BPD Officer Sheena Yarbrough-Powell, killing her.

Accused officer killer reverses guilty plea

News Staff
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Originally entering a guilty plea in reference to the intoxicated manslaughter incident that killed a 23-year-old, second-year Beaumont police officer, a now-20-year-old man reversed his decision at a May 23 sentencing hearing.
Charged with intoxication manslaughter, Luis Fernando Torres, picture here at 18, entered a guilty please April 19 in lieu of the trial jurists were already prepared to hear.

Charged with intoxication manslaughter, Luis Fernando Torres, picture here at 18, entered a guilty please April 19 in lieu of the trial jurists were already prepared to hear.

BPD officer's killer pleads guilty

Scott McLendon
Thursday, April 21, 2022
More than a year after drunkenly driving and crashing his Mustang into a patrolling police unit, in August 2020, killing a 23-year-old Beaumont officer when he was 18, a Port Arthur man pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter April 19 and could face no more than 30 years in prison.
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