All three officers involved in the shooting have been arrested and charged with murder, SAPD Chief William McManus said. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX PoliceBrutality PoliceAccountability PoliceShootings Texas
Alexis Tovar, 24, the sister of shooting victim Melissa Perez, said she retained the Packard Law Firm to represent her in the civil suit, which is expected to be filed sometime Monday or Tuesday, according to the daily.
Perez was having a mental health crisis when she cut the wires to the external fire alarm system at her apartment complex located in the 6200 block of Old Pearsall Road at around 2 a.m. Friday morning, Police Chief William McManusThree SAPD personnel — Alfred Flores, Eleazar Alejandro and Nathaniel Villalobos — tried to communicate with Perez through a window in her apartment, after which she appeared to have lunged at the window with a hammer, breaking the glass.
The three officers were arrested and charged with murder Friday afternoon. All three have been suspended from the force without pay while SAPD Internal Affairs and Homicide along with the Bexar County District Attorney's Office Civil Rights Division investigate, according to McManus. Daniel Packard, the lead attorney representing the Perez Family, told reporters over the weekend that the shooting is representative of larger issues within SAPD and its training.
"Even more egregious is the fact that there were three officers that pulled the trigger. And so you can't really say this is a rogue officer who just lost his head and didn't follow policy," Packard told the."Three officers thought it was ok to gun this woman down when she's in her own house, behind the door."Perez's killing is the latest San Antonio police shooting to grab national headlines.
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