![]() LAPD Chief Michel Moore recommended to the civilian board of commissioners that the shooting was out of policy. The family has also filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Sanchez and the city. Russell and Paola French will have lifelong medical problems as a result of the shooting, Galipo said, and their surgeries have been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Why did you have to shoot them all? Why did you have to kill the whole family?” witnesses reported hearing her say to Sanchez.ĭale Galipo, an attorney for the French family, called the police commission’s decision “an obvious call because clearly the shooting was so unjustified.” Galipo said the family remains disappointed that no criminal charges have been filed. Witnesses said Sanchez’s wife screamed her husband “shot somebody he wasn’t supposed to shoot” and he would go to jail. District Attorney Mike Hestrin said Sanchez believed he had been shot in the head and a shooter was on the loose when he and his 1½-year-old son were knocked to the ground in the unprovoked assault. The Riverside County district attorney in September declined to charge Sanchez criminally after a grand jury did not bring an indictment. The report also stated that Sanchez gave investigators “conflicting, contradictory, and confusing” statements that caused the commissioners “great concern.” Sanchez used tactics that warrant administrative disapproval, the commission ruled, though it was not immediately clear what that could be.Ĭommissioners also said in a report that Sanchez should have identified himself as a police officer and tried to deescalate the incident verbally before firing his weapon in a way that ” unjustifiably and substantially deviated from approved Department tactical training.”Ĭommissioners also criticized Sanchez for failing to warn other shoppers of the perceived danger. The person was not authorized to speak public and provided the information only on condition of anonymity.The civilian police commissioners determined French’s conduct did not present an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury - meaning that the use of lethal force was not “objectively reasonable.” 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. ![]() This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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