Police have not said if French had any weapons or if the officer identified himself as police before firing. “If the guy pulled out a pocketknife and approaches him, game over,” Giacalone said.
Joseph Giacalone, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a retired New York City police sergeant, said it’s justifiable to use deadly force even in a crowded store if the attacker has a weapon. Off-duty officers can carry concealed weapons as long as they are authorized for on-duty use, according to the LAPD manual. The officer was treated and released at a hospital, and his child was not injured. Los Angeles Police Commission President Steve Soboroff said it is Chief Michel Moore’s decision whether to put the officer on leave, but it wasn’t clear if that happened. Corona police and prosecutors did not respond to requests for comment Sunday. The LAPD said that it had no further information. Los Angeles police have started an internal investigation, while Corona police and the Riverside County district attorney’s office investigate the shooting separately. Truth will come out! I’m sure this was a misunderstanding that got escalated for no reason!” “This is a family that was unarmed and was just grocery shopping. “I’m posting this picture because the stories on social media have made them out to be the suspects, and the off duty cop the victim,” Shureih wrote Sunday. The family is seeking an attorney, said Shureih, who posted a photo of French and his parents on Facebook. He said French’s parents, Russell and Paola French, were the others shot and that they were in intensive care Sunday. “He’s not the kind to trade words, so I don’t believe that a verbal confrontation happened,” Shureih said. He declined to give specifics about his mental condition.įrench was “non-violent, non-aggressive, non-verbal,” Shureih said, and “he has to be pretty much monitored.” Rick Shureih, French’s cousin, told the Press-Enterprise in Riverside that French was a “gentle giant” who had mental disabilities. They have not released the names of the officers or those wounded. The officer was the only one who fired shots, striking French and two of his family members, police said.Īuthorities did not respond to requests for more information about what led to the attack and whether anyone but the officer had a weapon. The officer opened fire after Kenneth French, 32, of Riverside, attacked him without provocation as the officer held his young child Friday night, according to police in Corona, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of LA. Once that case is over, that specific criminal grand jury is disbanded.LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities are poring through video to figure out how a confrontation between an off-duty Los Angeles police officer and a man described by family as mentally disabled ended in a shooting in a Costco store that killed the man and critically wounded his parents. 24.Ī criminal grand jury is empaneled by a Riverside County Superior Court judge with 19 members of the community drawn at random from the general jury pool to hear a specific criminal case. In this matter, the grand jury heard testimony and deliberated over the course of two weeks, returning the “no bill” the afternoon of Sept. Presenting a case to a criminal grand jury is an option available to the DA’s Office and can be utilized for a variety of reasons including having members of the community examine the evidence in a case as well as compelling testimony from material witnesses who may have otherwise refused to be interviewed by law enforcement officials. The DA’s Bureau of Investigation conducted follow-up investigation leading to the case being presented to the criminal grand jury in early September. Sanchez, an off-duty officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, was determined to have shot all three.Ī thorough investigation into the shooting was done by the Corona Police Department and presented to the DA’s Office for review.
McKinley St., in the city of Corona that resulted in the death of Kenneth French and serious injuries to Russell and Paola French, Kenneth’s parents. On June 14, 2019, a shooting occurred inside a Costco at 480 N. 25, 2019, District Attorney Mike Hestrin announced that a Riverside County criminal grand jury has returned a “no bill” in the matter of Salvador Sanchez.Ī “no bill” means the grand jury did not find that the evidence in the matter warrants criminal prosecution.
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