SAN ANTONIO — Testimony continues Thursday 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 earlier this week say graphic photos and physical evidence from the scene of the police shooting. The three defendants are former SAPD officers Alfred Flores, Eleazar Alejandro and Nathaniel Villalobos. Their lawyers say Perez charged at them with a hammer and was a threat to their safety.

Crime scene investigator Yvonne Diaz with the San Antonio Police Department testified over two days Tuesday and Wednesday, 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 a

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