{"id":26244,"date":"2025-10-29T14:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/26244\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:52:26","slug":"lead-investigator-continues-testimony-in-melissa-perez-murder-trial-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/26244\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead investigator continues testimony in Melissa Perez murder trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; The trial of three former San Antonio police officers charged in the 2023 shooting death of Melissa Perez continues today.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys resumed questioning following Monday\u2019s decision by the judge to bar the state from calling expert witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Ronald Soto, the lead investigator in the case, took the stand, and additional body camera footage from the incident was reviewed. <\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys focused on questioning Soto about the officers\u2019 actions and the decision to execute the warrant, asking why there was a rush to enter the apartment. Soto testified that he had probable cause.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also reminded prosecutors not to reference or allude to a related federal case during the trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; The trial of three former San Antonio police officers charged in the 2023 shooting death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18342,18344,18341,2126,18340,2927,18343,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-26244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-body-camera","tag-federal-case","tag-lead-investigator","tag-melissa-perez","tag-murder-trial","tag-police-officers","tag-probable-cause","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}