![]() Los Angeles Police Commission President Steve Soboroff said it is Chief Michel Moore’s decision whether to put the officer on leave, but it wasn’t clear if that happened. Corona police and prosecutors did not respond to requests for comment Sunday. The LAPD said that it had no further information. Los Angeles police have started an internal investigation, while Corona police and the Riverside County district attorney’s office investigate the shooting separately. Truth will come out! I’m sure this was a misunderstanding that got escalated for no reason!” “This is a family that was unarmed and was just grocery shopping. ![]() “I’m posting this picture because the stories on social media have made them out to be the suspects, and the off duty cop the victim,” Shureih wrote Sunday. The family is seeking an attorney, said Shureih, who posted a photo of French and his parents on Facebook. He said French’s parents, Russell and Paola French, were the others shot and that they were in intensive care Sunday. “He’s not the kind to trade words, so I don’t believe that a verbal confrontation happened,” Shureih said. He declined to give specifics about his mental condition.įrench was “non-violent, non-aggressive, non-verbal,” Shureih said, and “he has to be pretty much monitored.” Rick Shureih, French’s cousin, told the Press-Enterprise in Riverside that French was a “gentle giant” who had mental disabilities. They have not released the names of the officers or those wounded. The officer was the only one who fired shots, striking French and two of his family members, police said.Īuthorities did not respond to requests for more information about what led to the attack and whether anyone but the officer had a weapon. The officer opened fire after Kenneth French, 32, of Riverside, attacked him without provocation as the officer held his young child Friday night, according to police in Corona, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of LA. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities are poring through video to figure out how a confrontation between an off-duty Los Angeles police officer and a man described by family as mentally disabled ended in a shooting in a Costco store that killed the man and critically wounded his parents.
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