Her family said she earned good grades, even though English was her second language and she’d only been in the U.S. Mourners left flowers and a votive candle outside the store on Christmas in a memorial for Orellana-Peralta. Those figures mark a dramatic rise in cases where officers shot or killed people in either of the last two years. LAPD officers have shot people 38 people - 18 of them fatally, including the shooting Sunday of a man with a knife - in 2021, according to the Los Angeles Times. There are no words that can describe the depth of the sorrow we feel at this tragic outcome,” Spell said in the video. “We at the LAPD would like to express our most heartfelt condolences and profound regret for the loss of this innocent victim, Valentina Orellana-Peralta. The California Department of Justice is also investigating. Police believe the bullet skipped off the floor and struck the dressing room wall. “At this preliminary phase of the investigation, it is believed that the victim was struck by one of the rounds fired by an officer at the suspect,” police Capt. Soledad Peralta’s screams can be heard in the video. The 24-year-old suspect, Daniel Elena Lopez, died at the scene. Speaking in Spanish and choking back tears as sirens wailed in the background in downtown LA, they said they had left Chile to get away from violence and injustice in search of a better life in the U.S. The teen’s family stood outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters on Tuesday, next to a large photo of Orellana-Peralta wreathed in flowers, to call for justice and remember their daughter. “We sat down on a seat, holding each other, praying, when something hit my daughter, Valentina, and threw us to the floor,” Soledad Peralta said Tuesday. Her family said the teen loved skateboarding and had dreams of becoming an engineer to build robots.Īfter screams broke out in the store the day before Christmas Eve, the teenager locked the dressing room door. Valentina Orellana-Peralta died in her mother’s arms last Thursday at a Burlington store in the San Fernando Valley’s North Hollywood neighborhood.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 14-year-old was shopping for Christmas clothes last week with her mother when the pair heard screams and hid in a dressing room, where the girl was fatally shot by Los Angeles police after an officer fired a rifle at a suspect and a bullet pierced a wall, the family said Tuesday. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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