Police Chief William McManus said the victim — Melissa Perez, 46 — appeared to be 'having a mental health crisis.'
San Antonio police investigate the scene where a woman in her 40s was killed by police responding to reports that she destroyed a fire alarm early Friday in at an apartment complex in the 6200 block of Old Pearsall Road.they shot and killed a distraught woman early Friday in her Southwest Side apartment“The shooting officers' actions were not consistent with SAPD’s policy and training,” Police Chief William McManus said during a news conference at 9 p.m. Friday.
Melissa Perez, 46, was cutting the wires of an outside fire alarm system at the Rosemont at Millers Pond apartments in the 6200 block of Old Pearsall Road after midnight. A neighbor called the authorities. Firefighters apparently arrived first and spoke with Perez, who gave them her name, birth date and apartment number.Flores, Officer Eleazar Alejandro and Officer Nathaniel Villalobos following a review of an Officer Involved Shooting that“It appeared Ms.
They tried to speak with her through an open window. When one officer removed the window screen, Perez threw a glass candlestick at him, striking his arm.
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