AUSTIN, Texas - The trial for an Austin police officer who shot and killed a man in 2022 starts next week.

Officer Daniel Sanchez is facing a deadly conduct charge for the shooting death of Raj Moonesinghe.

Officer Sanchez’s trial starts on Monday, Nov. 3.

Death of Raj Moonesinghe

The backstory:

In November 2022, Officer Daniel Sanchez killed 30-year-old Raj Moonesinghe after police got a call about a man pointing a rifle down the street of a neighborhood in South Austin.

When officers arrived, they said they saw Moonesinghe shooting into his home and then Officer Sanchez shot him.

"The bullet holes are not there, the bloodstains are off of the cement. But, you know, every time I walk up here, I see those things, you can't get them out of your mind," Raj’s brother, Mark, told FOX

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