![]() ![]() Sanchez told Corona police officers that he saw a “flash” and believed he had been shot. A witness said she shouted “No, no no,” after Sanchez drew his weapon. Russell French, 58, pushed his son away and Paola French, 59, moved between Sanchez and her son. “You shot me!” Sanchez said before falling and pulling out his handgun.Ī witness said French, his fists clenched, stared at Sanchez but did not advance toward him. ![]() Police Commission inquiry that resulted in his dismissal, said Sanchez’s arrest was part of “a politically motivated program” by Attorney General Rob Bonta to prosecute police. ![]() Monday, David Winslow, the attorney who represented Sanchez during the L.A. An attorney could not be located Thursday to speak on his behalf. He is free after posting bail, and a court date has not been set. Sanchez was charged Monday with voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a firearm. “A reasonable and objective fact-finder would likely conclude that nothing about the aforementioned circumstances would make it appear to a reasonable person - particularly one with knowledge similar to Sanchez’s as a trained police officer - that he or she was in imminent danger of death or great bodily injury after being struck and that firing a gun at Kenneth French was necessary to prevent further injury,” the investigator wrote. The document says that after French, an intellectually disabled man, struck Sanchez’s head with his hand, causing him to fall to the floor, French stood two to three feet from Sanchez before French’s parents Paola and Russell pushed him away. The investigator’s opinion, contained in a sworn statement written to obtain an arrest warrant, outlines in the most specific detail yet why the Attorney General’s Office decided to prosecute Sanchez, 30, two years after the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges and a Riverside County grand jury voted not to indict him. The lives of off-duty Los Angeles police Officer Salvador Alejandro Sanchez and his 18-month-old son were not at risk on a June night in 2019 when Sanchez unleashed a volley of 10 shots inside a Costco in Corona, fatally striking 32-year-old Kenneth French and wounding his parents, a state Department of Justice investigator said. ![]()
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