SAN ANTONIO — Testimony continues Wednesday in the trial of three former SAPD officers accused of shooting and killed 46-year-old Melissa Perez during a 2023 mental health call.

Jurors on Tuesday saw graphic photos and physical evidence from the scene of the police shooting.

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 show how bullets riddled Perez’s south-side apartment.

Several of the photos shown in court depicted Perez’s injuries to her chest and back. Her family was not present in the courtroom during that portion of testimony, and the defendants

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