Everything was happening so fast, I just wanted to get me and my kid to safety.' 'I didn't know if this was a random thing or a domestic thing or if this was a mass shooting. 'I saw people and heard shots and my first thought was 'Jesus, is this another mass shooting?'' she said. They huddled until they were able to escape through a side door. Tate said Saturday she was by the meat section when she heard 'about six or seven shots.' She dropped to the ground and crawled toward her daughter who was at the other end. Shrieks from inside the store were heard on video recorded by shopper Nikki Tate, who had stopped by with her daughter to pick up steaks and lobsters for Father's Day.

Shoppers and employees described terror and chaos when shots rang out shortly before 8 p.m. The man involved in the argument was killed, Corona police Lt. Witnesses said they saw a man with a Mohawk haircut arguing with someone near a freezer section when shots rang out at least six times. The shooting prompted a stampede of frightened shoppers to flee the store east of Los Angeles and seek cover inside. The officer was the only person who fired shots in the store, the department said. The officer, whose identity is being withheld, was treated and released at a nearby hospital, and the officer's child was not injured, the department said. The relatives are in critical conditions at hospitals. The officer fired his gun, hitting French and two of French's relatives, the department said.įrench was killed, the department said. Kenneth French, 32, of Riverside assaulted the Los Angeles Police Department officer Friday night while he was holding his young child, the department said in a statement Saturday. An off-duty police officer opened fire inside a Costco Wholesale warehouse store, killing a man who had attacked him and wounding two others, the Corona Police Department said.

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