![]() ![]() It was not clear what medications he had been taking or when he stopped taking them. He had been taken off his medication due to other health complications, which may have affected his behavior Friday night, Galipo said. ![]() Galipo said he'd been told the officer identified himself as a policeman before he shot.įrench, 32, of Riverside, lived with his parents and family members believe he suffered from schizophrenia, Galipo 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. 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.It's hard to fathom a Californian who is not part of law enforcement getting to shoot an unarmed man in a massive store while people ran away screaming without so much as a slap on the wrist. Would this response be the same if Sanchez were not a police officer? California political leaders are quick to implement tight gun controls and to give officials the power to seize citizens' weapons. The question is whether Sanchez's use of lethal force was justified given the situation. ![]() Meanwhile, the LAPD is doing its own administration investigation to determine whether Sanchez's decisions were appropriate under department policy.Įverybody involved in the shooting sees this as a tragedy, and nobody is arguing that French deserved to be shot and killed. But he does not intend to, because 12 of the 19 members of the grand jury said they didn't see enough evidence to justify charges. Hestrin could decide to prosecute Sanchez even without the grand jury indictment. Today, the Los Angeles Times reports that Sanchez was 20 feet away from the men when he began shooting, while still sitting on the floor after being knocked down. And Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin has said that less than four seconds elapsed between the point where French knocked Sanchez down and Sanchez got up and began shooting. It is worth noting that the video appears to show the Frenches as moving away from Sanchez and not attempting to move aggressively toward him. It does not show Sanchez shooting French, but it does show French and a family member falling-likely his father, who said he attempted to intervene between his son and Sanchez-to the floor as Sanchez, off-screen to the left, shoot at them. Unfortunately, the video, which can be viewed here, is not terribly illuminating. Family members said French had no history of violence but had recently been prescribed a new medication.Ī security camera in Costco captured part of the encounter, but a court order barred its release until a grand jury decided against an indictment on Wednesday. Sanchez fired 10 shots, killing French and critically injuring French's parents.Īfter the encounter, French's family came forward to explain that French was nonverbal, intellectually disabled, and diagnosed with schizophrenia. ![]() His lawyer, David Winslow, said that when Sanchez reawakened, he believed he was "fighting for his life." Sanchez says he was holding his infant son in his arms when he was knocked down suddenly and briefly knocked out. According to multiple accounts of the incident, French, with no provocation, struck Sanchez on the back of the head while they were waiting in line at a food sample station. An off-duty Los Angeles police officer who shot and killed an unarmed, apparently developmentally disabled man in a confrontation in a Costco in June will not face criminal charges for his actions.Ī grand jury declined to indict Salvador Sanchez for shooting and killing David French, 32, after the two of them had a brief and vague fight in a Costco in Corona, California.įrench was apparently the aggressor, but he was unarmed. ![]()
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