A man fatally shot in a S. California Costco store was mentally ill and off his medication when he pushed or slapped an off-duty police officer who opened fire and killed the man and critically wounded the man's parents, the lawyer for the family says
LOS ANGELES — A man fatally shot in a Southern California Costco store was mentally ill and off his medication when he pushed or slapped an off-duty police officer who opened fire and killed the man and critically wounded the man's parents, the lawyer for the man's family said Tuesday.
The officer's attorney, David Winslow, told the AP on Monday that the officer was holding his 1½-year-old son when French knocked him to the ground and he briefly lost consciousness.When he came to, Winslow said,"he believed his life and his son's life was in immediate danger" and fired his handgun. Medication can alleviate many of the symptoms if it is taken regularly but patients can regress within weeks if they stop, Siegel said. Patients may feel threatened from something as innocuous as a blue shirt and react erratically, though not typically violently, and need additional medical help.
The administrative inquiry, conducted by the department's Force Investigation Division, will look into whether the officer followed LAPD policies, according to Robert Rico, an attorney for the Los Angeles Police Protective League union who spoke generally Tuesday about officer-involved shooting investigations but declined to discuss the Costco case.
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