SAN ANTONIO — Judge Ron Rangel said both sides in a high-profile death case were so anxious to get started, they worked on seating a jury until almost midnight Thursday.

With 12 jurors and four alternates selected at the end of a long day, they returned at noon Friday to start work on the case involving the death of 46-year-old Melissa Perez in her southwest-side apartment in 2023.

Two former San Antonio police officers are charged with her murder, while a third is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The charges stem from a confrontation in which body-worn camera video showed Perez, in the midst of a mental health episode, threatening the officers with a hammer.

The video shows three officers responding by firing shots at Perez to stop the attack.

All three of the d

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