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-War on Police-
Three Texas police officers charged with murder in fatal shooting of woman, 46, having a mental health crisis when cutting fire alarm wires in her apartment building
2023-06-25
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • San Antonio Police Sargeant Alfred Flores, Officer Eleazar Alejandro, and Officer Nathaniel Villalobos were the three officers involved in Friday's incident

  • The woman, Melissa Perez, was having a mental health crisis around 2am on Friday, and was holding a hammer at one point

  • San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said the use of force 'was not reasonable' and not consistent with department policy, per a Friday news conference

  • After the showdown, the officers rendered first aid to Perez before paramedics arrived. She was pronounced deceased by medics, shortly after

Posted by:Skidmark

#4  Mental Health Crises, or extra meth'd up?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-06-25 13:38  

#3  More to the story:
'It appears Ms. Perez was having a mental health crisis,' the police chief said.

The officers who arrived at the scene first attempted to help Perez and walk her to a patrol unit, but she ran back inside her apartment and locked the door and the situation escalated.

Officers tried to speak to her through an open window, but she threw a glass candle at the one of the officers, the police chief said.

Two officers were seen leaping on top the patio area while Perez was holding a hammer and swinging it inside the home in the direction of where the officers were standing.

The hammer ended up hitting and shattering one of the windows but none of the officers appeared to be hit by the hammer.

One of the officers responded by opening fire, but it doesn't appear that Perez had been hit by the round of bullets.

She then attempted to go back outside where the officers were standing, with hammer in hand, and that is when the officers again opened fire and she was fatally struck by gunfire.
Posted by: Frank G   2023-06-25 10:27  

#2  All these people with last names like Smith and Walters.

Makes you wonder.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-06-25 10:26  

#1  Friday sounds like it was a fun day in SA.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-06-25 10:16  

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