Posted on 05/31/2024 2:17:24 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
Nearly a month after a jury deadlocked in the case of a former Los Angeles Police Department officer who shot and killed a mentally disabled man at a Costco store in Corona, the state Attorney General's Office confirmed that it will not retry the case.
Salvador Sanchez, who was off duty at the time of the shooting, admitted to firing his weapon at 32-year-old Kenneth French, killing the man with an intellectual disability and wounding his parents in June 2019. Sanchez had told Corona Police officers that he thought he "got shot in the back of [his] head," and he believed French was armed.
After Riverside County decided not to file criminal charges against Sanchez, the California attorney general’s office charged him. But the case that sought one count of voluntary manslaughter for French’s death and two counts of assault with a firearm for wounding French’s mother and father ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked following more than three days of deliberation.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...
By the way, he was fired from LAPD...
Rope the pig.
Probably an acorn.
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