

4 due to its overall low cost of living and relatively attractive quality of life.īased upon its study of 18 quality metrics for retirees, Bank Locations ranked Texas as the best state overall for retirees, due to its abundance of health care facilities and attractive quality of life. 5 among the 50 states in its appeal to retirees, just below its neighbor to the south, Georgia, which ranked No. Tennessee may not offer as many beaches or as warm of winter weather as the top-drawing retirement state of Florida, but the Volunteer State ranked No. Anyone with information about the April 7 incident is asked to contact Oxnard police Detective Chip Buttell at 80 or story may be updated.With the lowest tax burden of any state, Tennessee ranks among the best states in the country for retirees, according to a new ranking of retirement destinations by banking and credit experts for the online personal finance website Bank Locations. On the morning of March 12, an officer shot and killed Adam Barcenas, 60, as he advanced on police while wielding a large metal pole during an unrelated DUI investigation on a downtown street, body-worn camera footage showed.īoth police shootings will undergo multiple investigations.

The fatal use of force was the Oxnard department's second such incident in less than a month. The officer who fired the beanbag round was not identified in Thursday's update. The probes, which deliver a powerful shock, made contact but had minimal effect, authorities said.Īnother officer fired a beanbag-type round from a "less lethal" shotgun that caused Torrez to fall, but he reportedly got up quickly with the knife still in his hand, according to the department's previous account. The department previously said the sergeant at the scene fired a Taser as Torrez advanced. The four have returned to their regular patrol assignments.
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Thursday's update named the four officers and patrol sergeant at the scene. After getting shot, Torrez was treated at the scene before being taken by ambulance to Ventura County Medical Center, where he died around 7 p.m. Two officers deployed non-lethal weapons that failed to stop him, the department has said, before one officer fired a handgun. Officers ordered him to drop the knife as he reportedly walked toward them. When Torrez did exit the truck about five minutes later, he had a knife in his left hand, authorities said.

He didn't immediately respond to police commands to get out of the vehicle. Thursday's release added additional information, noting the caller told dispatchers the man had "chased her husband with a knife."Īccording to the agency's previous report, Torrez had allegedly been inside someone else's truck, without the owner's permission, when officers arrived. Residents had called 911 saying a man with a knife was threatening people, the department previously reported. Officers had responded to the 2000 block of East Bard Road, near the cross with Pleasant Valley Road, shortly after 6 p.m. The 18-year-old was identified as Oxnard resident Christian Baltazar Torrez. Body-worn camera footage from the five officers at the scene, previously expected to be released by Friday, will be made public next week, the agency said. The Oxnard Police Department also named the officers involved in the April 7 incident and provided additional details in a release sent out shortly after 5 p.m. Oxnard authorities on Thursday identified the 18-year-old man fatally shot by police last week as he allegedly approached officers while holding a knife.
