
Marcial Torres 28, holds his youngest son, Brian, in the drive way of his parents' home in Vista, where he and his long-term girlfriend live with their three sons. He watches almost blankly as his five-year-old Damien and two-year-old Derrick (off camera) cruise around on bicycles. As Associate Editor Joshua Emerson Smith snaps photographs, Torres asks with a deep curiosity how he became a reporter, an accomplishment Torres' demeanor reveals as unfathomable in his world. It's hard to tell just how profoundly losing his legs, after being Tased multiple times by a sheriff's deputy, has affected him.
