He also said the family is pro-police but wants justice and called on authorities to arrest the officer. In a Facebook posting Monday, Shureih said the family has gotten “witness accounts that do not match up to the original story.” He declined to provide details, saying the information is confidential. He did not provide details on the condition, but he said French had “to be pretty much monitored” and his cousin’s parents, Russell and Paola French, accompanied him everywhere. Rick Shureih, French’s cousin, told the Press-Enterprise in Riverside that French was gentle and didn’t speak because of a mental condition that started in adulthood. A statement from the department the following day, however, did not mention a verbal altercation and said the attack was “without provocation.” Kenneth French was shot once in the shoulder and three times in the back, while his mother was shot in the back, and her husband was shot in the abdomen, resulting in the loss of a kidney.The officer shot and killed French, 32, of Riverside, and critically wounded French’s parents.Ī Corona police spokesman said during a news conference shortly after the shooting that witnesses had reported hearing an argument. Store security surveillance tapes showed the victims backing away from Sanchez when he fired. Russell and Paola French said they pleaded with Sanchez not to shoot, telling the officer that their son, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was largely nonverbal, was ill. But the victim was not armed, according to police. Tapes from body-worn cameras of Corona police officers who went to the scene captured statements from Sanchez indicating that he initially believed Kenneth French was holding a weapon. No one has disputed that, for reasons still unknown, Kenneth French shoved the off-duty lawman to the ground.Īccording to Sanchez's civil attorney, David Winslow, his client was dazed, and when he saw his son next to him screaming, he "had no choice but to use deadly force." The victims were shopping when they approached a food sample table with sausages, where the defendant was also standing, holding his then-18-month-old son. A Los Angeles jury in November 2021 ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, awarding them $17 million. The French family filed a lawsuit against the LAPD, the city of Los Angeles and Sanchez at the end of 2019, alleging negligence and civil rights violations. In the summer of 2020, the Los Angeles Police Commission determined the Costco shooting reflected unjustifiable use of force, and Sanchez was booted out of the Los Angeles Police Department a month later. The Riverside County District Attorney's Office in September 2019 took the matter to the 19-member county grand jury, and jurors declined to indict Sanchez. When he announced criminal charges against Sanchez last summer, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the case was about "pursuing justice" and reaffirming the principle that "nobody is above the law." I tried to feel for a pulse, but there was no pulse."Īccording to Corona police investigators, only Sanchez was armed and fired 10 shots from his off-duty pistol. Then he appeared to stop bleeding, and there was no more labored breathing.
I took his right hand and tried talking to him, but he didn't respond. I stayed with him for five or 10 minutes. There was like a tremor every now and again.
"There was blood coming out of his right ear. 29 at the Riverside Hall of Justice.ĭuring testimony last week, witness William Gagnon described the aftermath of the shooting, saying that because of the volley of gunfire, he initially believed there were "two shooters." The judge scheduled a post-preliminary hearing arraignment for Aug.
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(CNS) - An off-duty Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot a developmentally disabled man during a confrontation in a Corona Costco, as well as critically wounded the victim's parents - all of whom were unarmed - must stand trial on voluntary manslaughter and other charges, a judge has ruled.įollowing a preliminary hearing that spanned nearly three days, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Samuel Diaz ruled there was sufficient evidence to warrant a trial for 33-year-old Salvador Alejandro Sanchez of Corona on the manslaughter count, as well as two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm resulting in great bodily injury. After days of graphic witness testimony, a former LAPD officer has been ordered to stand trial for a fatal shooting at a Costco store in Corona.
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