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The case of three former San Antonio police officers charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman inside her apartment last summer has been moved to Judge Ron Rangel’s 379th Criminal District Court.
Judge Stephanie Boyd of the 187th District Court will not be presiding over the case of three former SAPD officers charged with fatally shooting a woman inside her apartment last summer.
A trial date has been set for three former SAPD officers charged with fatally shooting a woman inside her apartment last summer.
Over the last year, Melissa Perez’s death has pushed people across San Antonio to question how the city handles mental health calls.
Just days before the one-year mark of her death, Melissa Perez’s family still can’t believe what happened.
A San Antonio police lieutenant fired last year for leaving his shift early the night officers shot and killed a woman inside her Southwest Side apartment, has received a second indefinite suspension for altering discipline files tied to the case, records confirm.
An SAPD lieutenant has been terminated and a sergeant has been suspended seven days after each of them left their assigned shifts early the night Melissa Perez was shot and killed inside her Southwest Side apartment, discipline records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
It's rare for a law enforcement officer to be charged with murder in Bexar County. Attorneys say it's a challenge to try those cases.
Three San Antonio Police Department officers were indicted by a grand jury Thursday, nearly six months after the shooting death of a 46-year-old woman inside her Southwest Side apartment.
This comes on the eve of October 22nd National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, and the day after Andre "AJ" Hernandez's birthday. He was the 13-year-old boy shot and killed by SAPD in 2022.
It's been three months since officers shot and killed Melissa Perez. The department is working to expand its mental health unit to increase its response.
Though council members avoided discussing it in detail, the police shooting death of a woman while she was believed to be in a mental health episode seemed to hang over a police budget discussion.
Two of the three San Antonio Police Department officers who were charged with murder last month have multiple past suspensions, records obtained by KSAT show.
NAMI San Antonio has a "warn line" where families and community members can call for help finding resources before a loved one has a mental health crisis.
There are still many unanswered questions after Melissa Perez’s death. Perez was shot and killed by three San Antonio police officers early Friday morning in her apartment in the 6200 block of Old Pearsall Road.
The daughter of a woman killed by three San Antonio police officers and her attorney are speaking out days after the officers were charged with murder.
SAPD Chief William McManus said 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.”
