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Los Angeles police will publish videos and calls about the shooting death of an agent of the young Valentina Orellana

2021-12-27T20:56:54.728Z


An officer chasing a suspect in a Burlington store fired his gun and the bullet went through a wall and hit the teenager as she tried on a party dress.


The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) will release body camera recordings, 911 emergency calls, radio transmissions and other evidence related to the death of Valentina Orellana on Monday. Peralta, the 14-year-old Latina who was shot by agents when she was trying on a dress in a Burlington chain store last Thursday.

Officers were chasing an assault suspect at the North Hollywood store, but when an officer fired his gun the bullet went through a wall and hit Orellana-Peralta, who

had gone with her mother to buy clothes for a 15-year party

.

Police also shot dead the suspect, identified by the Los Angeles County coroner as 24-year-old Daniel Elena López.

López apparently used a bicycle lock to hit a woman who was in the store, according to The Los Angeles Times.

The assaulted woman, who has not been identified and whose relationship to the man has also not been clarified, was taken to a local hospital with head and arm injuries, according to police.

The officer who opened fire has been placed on administrative leave during the investigation, a standard measure for all armed police incidents in California, Tom Saggau, spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Protection League, explained to The New newspaper. York Times.

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Investigations will look at the officer's tactics during the shooting, the perception of the threat, the officer's history, and interviews with other officers who were on the scene.

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore called the teen's death 

"absolutely heartbreaking" 

and promised to carry out a full investigation, along the same lines as LAPD Police Commission Chairman William Briggs.

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"This incident that caused the death of an innocent girl is tragic and devastating for all involved. I deeply regret the loss of this young woman's life and know that no words can ease the family's unimaginable pain," Moore added.

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Edwin Arroyo, who cleaned the dressing room in which the teenager died the next day, told The New York Times that he felt a lot of pain and grief when he saw "

innocent blood spilled on the floor

."

"The only thing I really know is that that night I came home and hugged my daughters tightly," he concluded.

Source: telemundo

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