He said Sanchez has changed his story, first saying their son struck him, causing him to lose consciousness, then saying he believed he had been shot and was under attack. “Our family has just taken another blow, and we have lost complete faith in the U.S. Russell French said the family is “extremely heartbroken.” “Salvador Sanchez was clearly wrong, as he was not in imminent danger to fire 10 shots at an entire unarmed family,” Paola French said. They questioned what evidence Hestrin presented to a grand jury this month that formed the decision not to file charges. mental illness, Kenneth French, while injuring two others (the parents of the man with mental illness) at a Costco store located in Corona, California. Paola and Russell French said Thursday that they were shocked that no charges were filed against the man who killed their son. Sal had no choice but to use deadly force to protect his young son and himself from assault.” We have two sets of parents trying to protect their child. “My client was assaulted and attacked, and what he did was excusable and reasonable under the law,” Salzman said. Ira Salzman, one of Sanchez’s attorneys, said Wednesday that the grand jury decision was a vindication. The district attorney’s analysis determined 3.8 seconds elapsed between when Sanchez was knocked to the ground and he began shooting. “The officer was hit in the back of the head while holding a child in his hands.” “It was out of the blue and unexpected,” Hestrin said. Prior to the confrontation between Sanchez and French, prosecutors said there was no previous interaction between the two. An undated photo of 32-year-old Kenneth French, and his parents Russell and Paula French, who were shot by an off-duty LAPD officer at a Costco in Corona, Calif., on June 14, 2019. Sanchez is barely visible in the far-left frame. The two men become entangled and fall to the ground, and a woman is seen approaching them. The recording shows French, wearing a striped shirt, being pulled along by a male family member in a dark shirt. On JKenneth French, a young man with disabilities, was shot and killed by an off-duty LAPD officer while shopping with his family at a Costco in Corona, California. Hestrin played a portion of a low-quality surveillance video, but the images were grainy, and it was hard to decipher what was happening. But the video - released when District Attorney Mike Hestrin announced Wednesday that no charges would be filed in the case - provided no clear-cut answers. Sanchez was off duty on June 14, 2019, when he killed 32-year-old Kenneth French and wounded his parents, Russell, 58, and Paola French, 59, during a confrontation. There were hopes that surveillance video from the store would help explain what happened. “The exact distance is unknown, but based on video and physical evidence, the estimated gap was about 20 feet at the time of the shooting,” Corona Police Sgt. Corona police officials said he was “seated” when he opened fire. Sanchez fired 10 times, prosecutors said. Sanchez’s attorneys said French knocked the officer to the ground for no reason, and Sanchez, who was holding his toddler, had no choice but to respond with lethal force. His parents, Russell and Paola French, were wounded in the gunfire. Kenneth French, 32, was killed June 14 in a food-tasting line inside the warehouse store by Officer Salvador Sanchez. However, the state attorney general charged him with voluntary manslaughter and assault with a semiautomatic firearm.Īn email seeking comment from David Winslow, an attorney who is representing Sanchez in the criminal case, wasn’t immediately returned.Officers exit the Corona Costco following a shooting inside the wholesale warehouse store on June 14. The Riverside County district attorney declined to charge Sanchez criminally when a grand jury didn't indictment him. The LAPD fired Sanchez last year after the city's civilian Board of Police Commissioners determined that 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.” His parents said French had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. However, French was not armed and was moving away from Sanchez when he opened fire. Sanchez told investigators he believed French had a gun, that he had been shot and that his life and his son’s life were in immediate danger. Sanchez pulled a handgun and opened fire, killing French and seriously wounding his parents, Russell and Paola French. Kenneth French, 32, a Riverside man with an intellectual disability. Sanchez was holding his 1 1/2-year-old son in his arms when he was knocked to the ground. Police Department officer to open fire inside a Costco store in Corona in June.
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