APD Officers Charged With Murder For Shooting Death Of Homeless Man (James Boyd)Bernalillo County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg filed paperwork on Monday charging two Albuquerque police officers with an count of murder each in the fatal shooting of a homeless camper in Albuquerque’s foothills last March.Former detective Keith Sandy and SWAT Team officer Dominique Perez will face a preliminary hearing before a judge who will decide whether there is enough to proceed with the charges, Brandenburg’s office said in an email release.Brandenburg filed the charges via criminal information, allowing her to charge the officers without presenting evidence to a grand jury. No date has been set for the court hearing.Sandy and Perez shot 38-year-old James Boyd, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, after a four-hour standoff in the Sandia foothills. Boyd, who was alleged to be illegally camping, was armed with two small knives.A helmet camera video released by APD after the shooting shows Boyd attempting to comply with officers orders to come down from his location, and attempting to convince officers he is not a threat, before they fired a flash grenade at him. After the grenade explosion, an officer with a dog and an officer with an assault rifle rush Boyd while screaming at him to get down. Boyd appears to pull out small knives in both hands as the officer with a dog approaches him. Officers then fire six live rounds at Boyd as he turns away from officers.At a press conference five days after the shooting, Chief Gorden Eden told reporters that he believed the shooting was justified because Boyd made a “threatening” move towards the officer with the dog.Although the shooting was not included in the Department of Justice’s investigation into APD, during the announcement of their findings, the DOJ cited the shooting, and Eden’s comments about it, as evidence of the systemic problems at APD.The District Attorney’s office is holding a press conference at 2:00 p.m. to discuss the charges.