Los Angeles investigators are assessing whether Sanchez, who has yet to be officially identified by the force, violated any department policies in the shooting. The officer was identified by multiple sources as Salvador Sanchez, a patrol officer in the Southwest Division, The Times reported. 'The off-duty officer was transported to a local hospital, where he was treated and released.' The family members are being treated at local hospitals and are in critical condition,' he said. 'This attack resulted in the officer firing his weapon, striking the male and two of the male's family members. Two other people, identified by Shureih as French's parents, Russell and Paola French, were critically wounding in the shooting.Ĭorona police Officer Tobias Kouroubacalis issued a statement over the weekend saying the off-duty LAPD officer was shopping at Costco with his family, holding his child in his arms, when, 'without provocation, a male unknown to the officer's family assaulted the officer.' We need justice to prevail! Please review the surveillance tape!'įrench was killed in the shooting that erupted at 7:46 p.m. 'Our family has witness accounts that do not match up to the original story. 'City of Corona Police Department my family has faith that you will do the right thing and arrest the gunman!' Rick Shureih, a cousin of 32-year- old Kenneth French, wrote on Facebook Monday morning. Sanchez was no longer employed by LAPD as of July 2020, a month after the Los Angeles Police Commission concluded he was “out of policy” when he shot French.RELATED: Off-duty LA cop discharged gun during deadly Southern California Costco shootingĪ cousin of the man who was fatally shot by the officer stepped up pressure on investigators, saying the lawman should be behind bars. Police Video Shows Chaotic Moments After Man With Intellectual Disability Killed in Corona Costco “(Sanchez) did not take time to correctly assess the incident and to analyze the threat,” the report says. Sanchez made no attempt to de-escalate the situation by communicating with French, the report says, adding that French was being pushed away and was not armed. In that report, previously reported on by the Southern California News Group, Sanchez says he lost consciousness and fell to the ground after he was hit, but investigators then asked how he was able to take out his pistol if he was numb and paralyzed. Sanchez fired 10 shots from a 9-mm pistol, according to a report to the civilian oversight panel by LAPD Chief Michel Moore. 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. 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.

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