A mistrial has been declared in the criminal case against former Los Angeles Police Department officer Salvador Sanchez who fatally shot an unarmed man at a Corona Costco in 2019.

Authorities say Kenneth French, 32, struck Sanchez from behind as Sanchez was standing in a food sample line and holding his 1 1/2-year-old son.

The officer, who was off-duty at the time, drew his weapon and shot French four times, as well as French’s parents once each. French died from his wounds.

Sanchez was charged with voluntary manslaughter and assault with a semiautomatic firearm by state officials after a Riverside County grand jury declined to bring charges.

According to a report in the Desert Sun, a jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the manslaughter charge, and a mistrial was declared on Thursday.

Sanchez’s attorney told the Associated Press that his client was knocked unconscious by French, though the French family’s attorney disputed that characterization and said it was more of an “open-handed push or slap.”

Additionally, French’s parents claim they told Sanchez that Kenneth had an intellectual disability.

“After hearing Officer [Salvador] Sanchez identify himself as a police officer, I begged and told him not to shoot,” Russell French said. “I said, ‘We have no guns, and my son is sick.’ He still shot. I thought people don’t do that.”

Though the criminal case ended in a mistrial, a jury awarded the French family $17 million in damages.

The Sun added that Deputy Attorney General Mike Murphy plans to “speak with his office before saying whether he planned to seek to take Sanchez to trial again.”

“I’m disappointed in the resolution, or the lack of resolution,” Murphy told the Sun.