Jury Selection In Trial Of Man Accused In Officer's Death

Jury selection begins this morning in the intoxication manslaughter trial of a Port Arthur man.

20-year old Luis Fernando Torres is accused of the August 2020 wreck that killed Beaumont

police officer Sheena Yarbrough-Powell . Torres faces five to 99 years if convicted. He will go

to trial later this year on an intoxication assault charge as Officer Gabriel Fells was injured in

the same wreck. The officer’s unit was struck by a wrong way vehicle on Cardinal Driver at

MLK in Beaumont.


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