I even said please,” she recalled between sobs. “I told Officer Sanchez not to shoot twice. Paola French also says she pleaded with the officer.
“I said, ‘We have no guns and my son is sick.’ He still shot.” “After hearing officer Sanchez identify himself as a police officer I begged and told him not to shoot,” Russell French said of the deadly encounter. ‘I was pleading for our son and our lives,’ mother says “My client acted in self-defense and this was a sad, tragic result, but he did not commit any crime, nor did he do anything to merit an award of civil damage.” “It’s just a terrible tragedy that we have two sets of well-meaning, good parents who were trying to help their children,” the LA Times quoted the attorney as saying. The attorney also said the officer was acting to protect his young son. “This wasn’t a little push – this was a severe assault,” said Ira Salzman, an attorney for Sanchez, according to the Los Angeles Times Monday. In fact, he said, multiple witnesses – including Russell and Paola French – said Sanchez handed the child to his wife, identified himself as a police officer, and pulled his service weapon.ĬNN has reached out to an attorney for Sanchez and has not yet heard back. Galipo says some witnesses indicated the officer fell to the ground, but he says no one reported that he lost consciousness. The strike has been described as a push or shove by some and a punch by others, Galipo said. 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.Kenneth, Russell and Paola French French FamilyĪs they stood around a sample table, Kenneth French struck off-duty police officer Salvador Sanchez as he was holding his young child, the family’s attorney Dale Galipo, told reporters at a news conference Monday. 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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