The officers were suspended without pay and later arrested on murder warrants in the shooting death of Melissa Perez when she refused orders to come out of her apartment, the police chief said.
Three San Antonio police officers have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman who was experiencing what the city's police chief said was a "mental health crisis."
"They placed themselves in a situation where they used deadly force which was not reasonable given all the circumstances as we now understand them," McManus said. "It appeared that Miss Perez was having a mental health crisis," McManus said without offering further explanation, and she then ran into her apartment.
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