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    Costco shooting: Family of man killed describes begging officer not to shoot

    by Alex Wigglesworth and Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times Aug 27, 2019 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - At an emotional news conference Monday, the parents of a man with schizophrenia who was shot and killed by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer at a Costco described begging the officer not to open fire after he pulled out his gun and identified himself as police.

    Kenneth French, 32, was killed in the shooting in Corona, about 45 miles east of Los Angeles, on June 14. His parents, Paola and Russell French, were severely injured.

    "I was pleading for our

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