"The only thing I want is justice for my daughter," said Juan Pablo Orellana, father of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, at a press conference.
The Chilean teenager was killed on Tuesday by a stray bullet near Los Angeles during a police intervention in a store.
"I will not have any rest until all these criminals are in jail, each of them," he added.
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United States: a teenage girl shot dead by a police officer's stray bullet
Los Angeles police were called to the store where a man had assaulted several women, injuring one of them with a heavy bicycle lock.
On their arrival, the police had discovered in the shelves of the store a woman in blood a few meters from the suspect.
According to the on-board camera footage released to the public, one of the officers almost immediately opened fire on the suspect three times with a rifle, fatally injuring him.
Valentina and her mother were in a dressing room on the other side of a wall directly behind the shot suspect.
“She died in my arms.
I could not do anything "
Police, who have opened an investigation, said the teenager was hit by a bullet that ricocheted on the floor and went through the wall of the cabin.
LAPD News Release
North Hollywood Officer Involved Shooting Incident at Burlington Coat Factory pic.twitter.com/V3we8dZer9
- LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) December 24, 2021
“We were both in a dressing room to buy clothes for Christmas.
We heard screams, we sat down hugging each other, praying, when something hit Valentina, ”said the mother, Soledad Peralta, adding:“ She died in my arms.
I could not do anything.
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