SAN ANTONIO — Jurors on Tuesday saw graphic photos and physical evidence from the scene of the 2023 police shooting that left 46-year-old Melissa Perez dead, as testimony continued in the trial of three former San Antonio police officers charged in her killing.

Crime scene investigator Yvonne Diaz with the San Antonio Police Department spent much of the afternoon on the witness stand, describing what she saw and the evidence she collected after the deadly encounter early in the morning of June 23, 2023. Prosecutors used her testimony to illustrate how bullets riddled Perez’s south-side apartment—striking the living room, kitchen, dining room and even a closet.

Several of the photos shown in court depicted Perez’s injuries to her chest and back. Her family was not present in the cour

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