“Additionally, Kenneth was being pushed away (from Sanchez) and was not armed. Sanchez “made no attempts to communicate with Kenneth in an effort to de-escalate the incident,” the report says.
Investigators asked him how he was able to take out his pistol when the officer was numb and paralyzed. Sanchez, who had no verifiable injury, according to the report, said he lost consciousness and fell to the ground, paralyzed after the hit by Kenneth French. Sanchez “had an obligation to take the time to assess the situation prior to making the decision to draw and exhibit a firearm inside of a crowded store,” the report says. The only gun found at the scene was Sanchez’s LAPD-issued pistol. But it also says there was no evidence that Kenneth French had a gun, or anything that resembled a gun. The report says Kenneth French’s hitting of the officer was indeed unprovoked. The report describes one of French’s parents screaming after the shooting: “My son’s sick! My son’s sick!”
Kenneth French’s parents, Paola French and Russell French, were wounded by his gunfire. The officer, holding his small son and feeding him a sample inside the warehouse store when struck by French, said he believed he had been shot in the back of his head, and that French was armed with a small pistol. Kenneth, who didn’t talk, lived with his parents in the Lake Hills area near Corona.ĭuring the encounter, the parents have said, they tried to intervene and explain their son’s condition to Sanchez. Corona police at the time said Kenneth French attacked Sanchez “without provocation.” that Friday near the deli in the back of the store on McKinley Street. The commission unanimously joined in the conclusion laid out in a report to the civilian oversight panel by Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore about a Jincident in which Kenneth French, 32, was fatally wounded by Officer Salvador Sanchez. An off-duty Los Angeles police officer was “out of policy” when he shot and killed an intellectually disabled Riverside County man and severely wounded his parents after the man struck the officer on his head inside a Corona Costco last year, the Los Angeles Police Commission agreed on Wednesday, June 10.
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