On Sunday, August 9, 2020 at 2:30 a.m., two Beaumont Police Officers were traveling Northbound on Cardinal Dr. (Hwy 69). Preliminary information indicates that their patrol unit was struck head-on by a Ford Mustang traveling the wrong way near the Hwy. 347 overpass.
One officer was transported to a local hospital in serious but stable condition. Officer Sheena Yarbrough Powell was pronounced dead at the scene. She was 23-years old she had been a Beaumont police officer for nearly two years. State Troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety have been called in to investigate the crash. The sole occupant of the mustang was transported to a hospital.