Ex-LA Officer Charged in Fatal Shooting of Mentally Ill Man

Ex-LA Officer Charged in Fatal Shooting of Mentally Ill Man
Heavily armed police officers leave the Costco store following a fatal shooting of Kenneth French by an off-duty Los Angeles Police Officer Salvador Sanchez at Corona, Calif., on June 14, 2019. Will Lester/The Orange County Register/SCNG via AP
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LOS ANGELES—California’s attorney general has filed manslaughter charges against a former Los Angeles police officer who was off duty when he fatally shot a mentally ill man who was shopping with his parents in 2019.

Officer Salvador Sanchez, who was a seven-year veteran of the LAPD at the time of the shooting, was arrested Monday in Riverside County. He faces one count of voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. The LAPD says he was terminated from the agency in July 2020, but it declined further comment on Sanchez’s arrest.