LATEST UPDATE An attorney representing the daughter of Melissa Perez, who was shot and killed by San Antonio police Friday, said 'I've always trusted the police to protect me and now I don't know who to trust.'
Friday night the officers didn’t follow department training or policy and “used deadly force, which was not reasonable given all the circumstances as we now understand them.”
This article explains what we know so far about Perez, the officers, the shooting and the body camera footage.Alexis Tovar, Perez’s daughter, released a statement through her attorney Dan Packard on Saturday afternoon to“We have always been a pro-police family. This breaks my heart. I always trusted the police to protect me and now I don’t know who to trust. We can’t express how hurt we are,” Tovar’s statement said.of the shooting Friday morning.
“I don’t know, like, the whole story of what happened, but to me she was always nice. I don’t know about everybody else,” Veloz said.around 2 a.m. Friday at the Rosemont at Miller’s Pond apartments, located in the 6200 block of Old Pearsall Road. Officers Flores, Alejandro and Villalobos moved toward the back patio of Perez’s apartment and unsuccessfully attempted to coax Perez outside.
She swung the hammer toward the officers and broke the window separating her apartment from the patio, McManus said.Perez went toward the window again, still carrying the hammer, and that’s when all three officers opened fire, according to McManus. Perez was hit at least two times.
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