His parents have said they tried to intervene and explain their son’s condition. Sanchez said he was in line trying samples and was holding his son when French struck him.įrench didn’t talk and lived with his parents in the Lake Hills area near Corona. “I believe he was still armed, so I shot.” “The guy like, hunkers down,” Sanchez continued. “I fall to the ground and I dropped my son. “I see a blast and I feel my head get knocked out,” Sanchez tells the officer, whose body camera recorded the conversation. Sanchez told a Corona officer he thought he got shot and that he still felt pain on the right side of his head, according to the body-camera video. Kenneth French, 32, was shot four times, including three times in the back after he hit Sanchez in the head, Corona police have said in regard to what they called an unprovoked attack about 7:45 p.m.
The first responding Corona police officer encountered Salvador Sanchez, off-duty at the time, already on the ground inside the Costco, according to video obtained by NBC Los Angeles. The person was not authorized to speak public and provided the information only on condition of anonymity.A then-Los Angeles police officer told responding Corona officers he saw a gun before fatally shooting an intellectually disabled man and severely wounding his parents after the man hit him in the head inside a Corona Costco in 2019, newly released bodycam footage shows. The department has not released the officer’s identity but a person with knowledge of the investigation said he is Salvador Sanchez. The division’s investigators look into the drawing and exhibiting of the firearm, the discharge of the firearm, and the tactics used before and during the shooting, Rico said. The administrative inquiry, conducted by the department’s Force Investigation Division, will look into whether the officer followed LAPD policies, according to Robert Rico, an attorney for the Los Angeles Police Protective League union who spoke generally Tuesday about officer-involved shooting investigations but declined to discuss the Costco case. He is on paid administrative leave that is mandatory after an officer-involved shooting. The officer, who has been with the LAPD for seven years, underwent a mandatory interview Monday by LAPD investigators as part of the department’s administrative probe, Winslow said. When he came to, Winslow said, “he believed his life and his son’s life was in immediate danger” and fired his handgun. “It wasn’t an innocent push,” Winslow said Tuesday. The officer’s attorney, David Winslow, told the AP on Monday that the officer was holding his 1½-year-old son when French knocked him to the ground and he briefly lost consciousness. “It certainly does not justify killing someone.”
“I would hardly characterize it as an attack,” Galipo told The Associated Press, describing it as an “open-handed push or slap” to the policeman’s back. Corona police have said French “attacked” the officer “without provocation” but Galipo said that overstated what French did. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man fatally shot in a Southern California Costco store was mentally ill and off his medication when he pushed or slapped an off-duty police officer who opened fire and killed the man and critically wounded the man’s parents, the lawyer for the man’s family said Tuesday.Īttorney Dale Galipo said he didn’t know if there was any exchange between the officer and Kenneth French before the violence at the store in Corona, east of Los Angeles. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.
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