FILE – Heavily armed police officers leave the Corona, Calif., Costco store following the fatal shooting of Kenneth French by an off-duty Los Angeles Police officer, June 14, 2019. A judge says a former Los Angeles police officer who was off duty when he fatally shot French during a confrontation at the Costco store must stand trial on manslaughter and other charges. (Will Lester/The Orange County Register/SCNG via AP, File)
riverside, - a former Los Angeles police officer who was out of service when he fatally killed a man suffering from mental illnesses during a confrontation in a Costco store must be judged by an involuntary homicide and others posts, judged a judge.
.Salvador Sánchez, who was a seven -year -old veteran of the LAPD at the time of the shooting in 2019, was accused by the California Attorney General after the County Prosecutors of Riverside refused to present charges.
.Sánchez declared himself innocent of voluntary homicide and two assault positions with a firearm.
Sánchez was with his grandson in a Costco in Corona when he was struck behind Kenneth French, 32. Sanchez opened fire, fatally injuring the French and critically injuring French, Russell and Paola French.
.Sánchez had told the researchers that he believed that the Frenchman had a weapon and that his life was in danger. The authorities said that the Frenchman was not armed and that he moved away from Sánchez when the officer opened fire.
Kenneth French was not verbal and recently he had been withdrawn from his medication for mental illness due to other health problems, he previously said family lawyer, adding that change could have affected his behavior that evening.
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Sánchez, Michael D. Schwartz, said that a much lower test standard is required in preliminary hearings than in judgments.
"If these cases have shown us something historically, it is because people must keep any determination until all the facts come out in the trial", .
Last October, a jury in a trial on demand granted $ 17 million to Russell and Paola French.
The council of Los Angeles police commissioners judged that Sanchez had violated ministerial policy during the shooting. He was dismissed from the agency in 2020.
The lawyer for the French family did not immediately respond to a request for comments.