Video After The Jump
CNN — 3 San Antonio police officers were charged with murder on Friday less than 24 hours after they fatally shot a woman during a police call.
Officer Eleazar Alejandro, 28; Sgt. Alfred Flores, 45; & Officer Nathaniel Villalobos, 27, are suspended from the force without pay as the investigation continues.
Police were responding to a call that a woman later identified as Melissa Ann Perez, 46, was cutting wires to a fire alarm system at her apartment complex.
“It appeared that Ms. Perez was having a mental health crisis,” said the chief.
After initially speaking with officers outside, Perez went back inside her apartment & locked the door.
On the body camera video, she can be heard twice saying, “You ain’t got no warrant!” One officer attempted to open the window & McManus said Perez threw a glass candleholder at him. Police said she later swung a hammer at an officer but hit the window instead, breaking it.
1 officer opened fire, but Perez was not hit & can be heard still speaking on the body camera video.
Seconds Perez “advanced toward the window again while still holding the hammer & all 3 officers opened fire.”
More than a dozen shots are heard on the body camera video. Perez was struck at least twice.
Although she was allegedly approaching the officers with a hammer when the officers opened fire, the arrest warrant said Perez “did not pose an imminent threat of serious bodily injury or death when she was shot because the defendants had a wall, a window blocked by a television & a locked door between them.”
Bexar County jail records show all 3 officers were released on $100,000 bond.
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