In many cases, grocery stores and other retailers are requiring that employees (and sometimes customers) wear masks. In select parts of the country, nonessential stores began reopening in May. Then-Corona police Chief George Johnstone said detectives confirmed 10 shots were fired.Hawaii Alaska Florida South Carolina Georgia Alabama North Carolina Tennessee RI Rhode Island CT Connecticut MA Massachusetts Maine NH New Hampshire VT Vermont New York NJ New Jersey DE Delaware MD Maryland West Virginia Ohio Michigan Arizona Nevada Utah Colorado New Mexico South Dakota Iowa Indiana Illinois Minnesota Wisconsin Missouri Louisiana Virginia DC Washington DC Idaho California North Dakota Washington Oregon Montana Wyoming Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Pennsylvania Kentucky Mississippi Arkansas Texas Get Meals Delivered to My Door Russell and Paola French said they pleaded with Sanchez not to shoot, telling the officer that their son, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was largely nonverbal, had psychiatric trouble. But the victim was not armed, according to police. Tapes from body-worn cameras of Corona police officers who went to the scene captured statements from Sanchez indicating that he initially believed Kenneth French was holding a weapon. “At the time of the incident, he believed he was protecting himself and his baby from being killed,” Winslow said. No one has disputed that, for reasons still unknown, Kenneth French shoved the off-duty lawman to the ground.Īccording to Winslow, Sanchez was dazed, and when he saw his son next to him screaming, he “had no choice but to use deadly force.”
The victims were shopping when they approached a food sample table with sausages, where the defendant was also standing, holding his then-18-month- old son. In the summer of 2020, the Los Angeles Police Commission determined the Costco shooting reflected unjustifiable use of force by Sanchez, and he was booted from the police force a month later. He told reporters at the conclusion of the grand jury proceedings that “we had to put our passions and emotions aside and marry the facts with the law.” He denied Sanchez had been favored with “special treatment” because he was a law enforcement officer. The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office in September 2019 took the matter to the 19-member county grand jury, and the jury declined to indict Sanchez.Īfter the DOJ announced its case against Sanchez, District Attorney Mike Hestrin reiterated that “all known and available evidence” had been presented to jurors. A Los Angeles jury in November ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, awarding them $17 million in damages. The family filed a civil suit against the LAPD, the city of Los Angeles and Sanchez at the end of 2019, alleging negligence, civil rights violations and both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
In announcing the charges against Sanchez last summer, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that the case was about “pursuing justice” and reaffirming the principle that “nobody is above the law.” Magno at the Riverside Hall of Justice and remains free on a $155,000 bond. The defendant was arraigned before Riverside County Superior Court Judge O.G. More: Ex-LAPD officer arrested, charged for shooting disabled man at Costco after AG reviews caseĪlong with manslaughter, Sanchez is charged with two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm resulting in great bodily injury. Salvador Alejandro Sanchez, 32, of Corona was arrested in August by California Department of Justice agents following a monthslong investigation.
An ex-Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot a developmentally disabled man who shoved the off-duty lawman to the floor of a Corona Costco during an unexplained confrontation that led to the victim’s parents being shot pleaded not guilty today to voluntary manslaughter.
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