Three Texas police officers have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman who was experiencing what the city's police chief said was a “mental health crisis.”
Three San Antonio police officers have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman who was experiencing what the city's police chief said was a “mental health crisis.”
Sgt. Alfred Flores and Officers Eleazar Alejandro and Nathaniel Villalobos were suspended without pay and later arrested on murder warrants in the shooting death of Melissa Perez, 46, when she refused police orders to come out of her apartment,“The officers' actions were not consistent with SAPD's policy and training,” McManus said during a Friday night news conference.
“They placed themselves in a situation where they used deadly force which was not reasonable given all the circumstances as we now understand them,” McManus said.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters. One of the three charged officers opened fire, McManus said, after Perez first threw a glass candlestick at the officers then swung a hammer at them. All three officers then fired when Perez approached them again with the hammer, hitting her at least twice, according to McManus.Perez was suspected of cutting the wires to a fire alarm, a felony, at the apartment complex and was talking to fire officials about 12:30 a.m.
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Three San Antonio police officers charged with murder after shooting, killing woman in her apartmentSgt. Alfred Flores and Officers Eleazar Alejandro and Nathaniel Villalobos are now in custody and suspended without pay. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX PoliceBrutality PoliceMisconduct PoliceAccountability PoliceShooting
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