The fatal shooting occurred when off-duty Los Angeles Police Officer Salvador Sanchez opened fire, killing 32-year-old Kenneth French and critically injuring his parents, Russell and Paola French. Sanchez reportedly said he opened fire because he thought he was being attacked by French while he was holding his child.

A federal grand jury on Wednesday declined to bring charges against Sanchez and Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said his office would not bring its own charges against the officer.

Hestrin said at a news conference that Sanchez believed he had been shot in the head and a shooter was on the loose when he and his son were knocked to the ground in the unprovoked assault.

After opening fire, four bullets struck French in the back and shoulder, one struck his mother in the stomach and another hit his father in the back, Corona police Chief George Johnstone said.

The encounter in the Corona warehouse store spanned just 3.8 seconds. The grand jury was presented with a poor-quality clip of surveillance video and testimony from several witnesses, some of whom had been subpoenaed.

In the video released by prosecutors, the two can be been struggling in the back of the store near where the rotisserie chicken was set out before both fall to the floor.

As gunshots rang out, shoppers throughout the warehouse store ran for cover, with many abandoning baskets and hiding down other aisles.

Ira Salzman, Sanchez’s lawyer, said his client was “gratified” to hear he won’t be charged. Salzman said Sanchez did not testify before the grand jury but had given evidence to the district attorney’s office regarding his state of mind and subsequent medical records showing a concussion.

“Sal believed he was shot,” Salzman said. “The case was a terrible tragedy.”

Dale Galipo, an attorney for the French family, said he was “disappointed but not surprised” by the development. He said he believes prosecutors only took the case to a grand jury to appease the community and may not have pushed hard enough to persuade the jurors.

The French family filed a claim against Sanchez and the LAPD, and their lawyer says they have plans to file a federal lawsuit next month.

The LAPD is also conducting an administrative inquiry into whether Sanchez followed the department’s policies.

Sánchez’s Socialist party won the most votes on April 28 national elections lacked significant numbers and will need support to remain in charge.

Sánchez also spoke after Meritxell Batet, the Spanish Parliament’s speaker, announced that Spanish King Felipe VI had announced Sánchez as the candidate to form a government.

And in Spain’s Constitution, the steps to form a government starts with the monarch holding a round of talks with the leaders of political parties in the parliament before proposing a candidate.

The far-left ‘We Can’ party is aiming to enter into alignment, but the Socialists have said they would prefer to govern as a minority.

However, the conservative Popular Party, the centre-right Citizens, and the far-right Vox parties have all said they will vote against Sánchez.

Sánchez said that the four pillars of his government’s agenda will be aiming to affect climate change, advancing the country’s digital change, drastically bringing down inequality and working for a stronger Europe.