The page notes that the family was shopping at Costco to prepare for a Father's Day barbecue at their home. Truth will come out! I'm sure this was a misunderstanding that got escalated for no reason! If anyone was a witness please get in contact with us.”Ī GoFundMe page has been established to help with the French family's expenses. “This is a family that was unarmed and was just grocery shopping.

Do they look intimidating to you? Did he really have to shoot them all? 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. My cousin Kenneth was killed and his parents, my aunt & uncle were also both shot and are in ICU. On Sunday, Shureih posted on Facebook a picture of French and his parents standing outside Universal Studios Hollywood, and wrote: “I'm not keeping quiet about this! People need to know! This is my family! These are the victims of the Costco shooting the other night. We need justice to prevail! Please review the surveillance tape!” “Our family has witness accounts that do not match up to the original story,” he wrote. Rick Shureih, a cousin of Kenneth French, wrote on Facebook Monday that the officer should be arrested. The officer's son was not injured and Sanchez suffered minor injuries. Winslow declined to go into detail about the threat perceived by the officer when he came to, other than to say the “assailant and the actions of the assailant led him to believe he was still in deadly harm.” “This was a violent attack that knocked him (the officer) to the floor.” “This was not an accidental bump,” Winslow told NBC4. Winslow, however, disputed the description of French's actions as a push or shove. “There seems to be unequal treatment of police officers compared to other citizens when deadly force is used, causing death or serious bodily injury, which is a great concern to many members of the community,” Galipo said. The attorney said it was also disturbing that “if anyone other than an off-duty police officer had shot three unarmed civilians in a Costco, that person would be in jail and facing criminal charges for murder.” French was unarmed and posed no immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury to anyone.” Galipo said in a statement earlier Tuesday the family believes the shooting “was excessive and completely unjustified because Mr. The resulting shooting “was a complete overreaction on behalf of this police officer,” Galipo told NBC4. He also said French's father tried to explain to the officer that his son was intellectually disabled. Galipo told reporters in various interviews that French - having recently been taken off his medications due to health reasons - pushed or shoved the officer in the back in a food-sample line, but he denied that there was any deadly threat to the officer. Winslow said the officer “had no choice but to use deadly force.” Galipo, Paola French remains in critical condition and in a coma, while Russell French's condition is improving.Ĭorona police said after the shooting the off-duty officer was shopping at Costco with his family, holding his child in his arms, when, “without provocation, a male unknown to the officer's family assaulted the officer.”Īccording to the officer's attorney, David Winslow, the officer briefly lost consciousness, and when he awoke, he was on the ground and his 18- month-old son was next to him screaming. Kenneth French was described by his family as non-verbal and intellectually disabled.Īccording to the French family's attorney, Dale K. Kenneth French, 32, was killed in the shooting and his parents, Russell and Paola French, were wounded. Witnesses said they heard an argument in the freezer section of the store, followed by gunfire. Sanchez has been with the department since May 2012, according to the Los Angeles Times, which first published the involved officer's name.Ĭonflicting stories have emerged over the circumstances that led to the fatal shooting, with the dead man's relatives calling for the lawman's arrest, and the officer's attorney insisting his client acted in self-defense. Salvador Sanchez, a Southwest Division patrol officer, is now on administrative leave, according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Tony Im. Enter To Win 2 Concert Tickets Of Your Choosing!ĬORONA (CNS) - Los Angeles police today confirmed the identity of an off-duty officer who shot and killed a special needs man and critically wounded his parents after an unprovoked attack in a Corona Costco store.iHeartRadio VIP Sweepstakes with John Mellencamp - Online Sweepstakes.Enter for Your Chance to Win a $1,000 Gift Card.- Nerd-O-Rama with Mo'Kelly and Tawala!.County Sheriff Alex Villanueva Live and Unscripted

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