A California police officer shot and killed a man with a violent last Sunday who attacked him with a steel rod and called his squad “pigs.”
Body camera footage shown Adam Barcenas, 60, rushes toward three officers making a DUI stop at 6 a.m. in Oxnard, a city 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
“Hello, you fucking pigs,” Bárcenas can be heard shouting.
“I hate pork. Come on. I hate pig. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.”
With a 5-foot steel rod raised, Bárcenas assaulted the three police officers as they stood on the sidewalk with a driver they suspected was driving under the influence.
The officers pulled the citizen out of the way and repeatedly ordered the belligerent man to leave the bar.
“Bárcenas ignored the officers’ orders and continued to advance toward them in an aggressive and threatening manner,” Oxnard police said.
Two officers drew tasers, while another, who Bárcenas was apparently aiming at, drew his weapon.
Officer Shayn Schwartz fired four fatal shots at the charging man, video shows.
Bárcenas received three impacts: in the right leg, the right hip and the upper part of the left torso.
An officer deployed his Taser, but it did not penetrate Bárcenas’s skin.
The third officer did not deploy his weapon.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but died about two hours later.
Bárcenas had a history of violent crimes, KVTA reported.
He attacked two elderly strangers on the street in two separate unprovoked attacks in 2019.
He ran up to a 71-year-old woman, punched her in the head, knocked her to the ground, and then kicked her several times. She died eight days later, but prosecutors could not definitively link her death to the Bárcenas attack.
A short time later, he approached an 80-year-old man who was walking with his wife and punched him in the face and walked away before coming back for a second punch.
All three officers have been placed on administrative leave, the department said. Neither had been involved in a shooting before.
Schwartz joined the Oxnard Police Department in April 2022, the agency revealed. He had served as an officer with the Burbank Police Department from August 2018 to March 2022.
The city is investigating the shooting.
