“People start filling in the timelines for you” in the meantime, he said. While it’s not unusual for police to delay releasing information such as an officer’s name in a shooting for safety reasons, Giacalone said it’s important to get details out as quickly as possible. Giacalone said video footage from Costco’s cameras and shoppers’ cellphones will be critical to the dual investigations. Police have not said if French had any weapons or if the officer identified himself as police before firing. “If the guy pulled out a pocketknife and approaches him, game over,” Giacalone said Sunday. Joseph Giacalone, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a retired New York City Police Department sergeant, said it’s justifiable to use deadly force even in a crowded store if the attacker has a weapon. Corona police and the district attorney’s office did not respond to requests for comment Sunday. The LAPD said Sunday it had no further information. The LAPD will continue its internal probe as Corona police and the Riverside County district attorney’s office conduct a separate investigation into the shooting. The department’s policies allow off-duty officers to carry concealed weapons as long as they are authorized for on-duty use, according to the LAPD manual. The officer’s child was not injured, the department said. The officer was treated and released at a nearby hospital. The officer was the only person who fired shots in the store, police said. The officer opened fire after Kenneth French, 32, of Riverside, “assaulted” him “without provocation” as the officer held his young child, Corona police said Saturday.īullets struck French and two of his family members, according to police. The officer’s identity has not been released. Los Angeles Police Commission President Steve Soboroff said Sunday it is Chief Michel Moore’s decision whether to put the officer on leave, but it remained unclear if that happened. Two others were critically injured in the shooting in Corona, which is about 40 miles east of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Police Department is gathering evidence and video footage in an administrative investigation into an off-duty officer who shot and killed a man authorities say attacked him inside a Southern California Costco Wholesale warehouse store.Īuthorities remained tight-lipped Sunday, not responding to requests for comment about what provoked the Friday night confrontation and whether anyone but the officer was armed. (Will Lester/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG via AP)ĬORONA, Calif. The man involved in the argument was killed and two other people were wounded, Corona police Lt. A gunman opened fire inside the store during an argument, killing a man, wounding two other people and sparking a stampede of terrified shoppers before he was taken into custody, police said. Though parts of the incident were captured by Costco security cameras, the videos have not been made public.Heavily armed police officers exit the Corona Costco following a shooting inside the wholesale warehouse in Corona, Calif., Friday, June 14, 2019. The LAPD is conducting an administrative review. The Riverside County district attorney's office, which received the case from Corona police in late June, is reviewing whether to criminally charge the officer. "My client acted in self-defense and this was a sad, tragic result, but he did not commit any crime, nor did he do anything to merit an award of civil damage." "It's just a terrible tragedy that we have two sets of well-meaning, good parents who were trying to help their children," Salzman said. He said Sanchez was also acting out of fear for his own young son, whom he was holding at the time of the altercation. "This wasn't a little push - this was a severe assault," Ira Salzman said Monday. An attorney for Sanchez said his client was attacked from behind and acted under a "reasonable belief" that he was being assaulted and that his life was at risk.
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