![]() ![]() “The impact on his brain caused him to believe that Mr. “For anybody in the LAPD to say that the average LAPD officer wouldn’t have reacted that way is simply being dishonest because you don’t know how somebody is going to react with a head injury,” Winslow said. One of Sanchez’s attorneys, David Winslow, said the LAPD’s conclusions were “incompetent” because the report failed to fully explore whether or not Sanchez had truly suffered a head injury, and Winslow said in the chaos of the moment, Sanchez had acted in a reasonable manner given Sanchez’s perception of what had happened. The LAPD found in June 2020 that Sanchez’s actions that night were unreasonable and had violated the department’s rules for use of lethal force. One eyewitness told Corona Police that Sanchez collapsed to the floor so quickly she thought he had suffered a medical emergency another said Sanchez “got down” to the floor, took a “defensive position,” and began shooting, according to detectives’ reports. Several witnesses said the strike, described as a punch or a slap, was unprovoked. Corona and LAPD detectives determined French never had a gun and no shooting took place before Sanchez opened fire. However, the Los Angeles Police Department conducted its own investigation and determined his actions violated the department’s use of force policy and fired him in 2020.Īccording to Corona Police interviews, multiple witnesses said Sanchez was struck in the head by French’s hand, as the two stood near a food sample table. Nevertheless, a grand jury which met in secret three months after the shooting determined Sanchez was not criminally liable for the shooting. “You know what, I’m not going to talk any further without my lawyers.”Īlthough Sanchez claimed in the video to have been struck on the head with such force that he thought he had been shot, paramedics who examined him in an ambulance moments later found “no significant injury,” NBC Los Angeles reports. ![]() However, when the Corona police officer asks him if he specifically saw a weapon, he clammed up. “Those people probably like got in the way,” he explains in regards to French’s parents being shot as well. I believed he was still armed so I shot.” When I dropped my son, and the guy like, hunkers down,” he says. “I see a blast and I feel my head get knocked out, and I fall to the ground, I dropped my son. The new body camera video was obtained by NBC Los Angeles after months of requesting it from the Corona Police Department in Riverside County.Īs Sanchez is lying on his back, he explains his version to the cop. A closer surveillance camera that might have captured the entire incident was not working, according to prosecutors. However, the surveillance video is grainy and far from the incident. And surveillance video shows his father was shoving him away from Sanchez when the cop opened fire which is when they fall to the ground. “No, he’s got it,” responded Salvador Sanchez, pointing at the man he had just shot who was laying on the floor along with his parents, all of them struck by gunfire.īut Kenneth French – who witnesses say either slapped or punched the cop in the back of the head unprovoked – never did have a weapon. ”Do you have any weapons?” asked the Corona police officer who had been parked in front of the store on Jafter the off-duty cop fired ten times, killing the man and wounding his mother and father. If you have any information about this incident please contact Lieutenant Newman at 95 or email the City of Corona: Corona is located adjacent to Orange County California at the junction of the 91 and 15 freeways with a population of more than 160,000 residents.In the moments after an off-duty Los Angeles police officer shot and killed a mentally ill man inside a Southern California Costco in 2019, a responding police officer found the off-duty cop laying on his back on the floor as if he he was the one who had been shot. The name, age and gender of the deceased subject will not be released until the Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner formally identifies the subject and notifies their next of kin. Investigators have accounted for all of the people directly involved with this incident. One subject succumbed to their injuries at the scene and three other subjects, including an off duty officer from another agency, were transported to local hospitals in unknown conditions. Upon entering Costco, officers located four injured people on the floor. Responding officers arrived in just over one minute. McKinley Street, Corona regarding an active shooting inside the business. Corona Police Officers were sent to Costco Wholesale located at 480 N. City Council Regional Board AppointmentsĬORONA, CA– On June 14, 2019, at 7:46 p.m. ![]()
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