LOS ANGELES (AP) — The parents of a 14-year-old girl killed by Los Angeles police in a clothing store last year have filed a lawsuit against the department & the officer whose rifle round pierced a dressing room wall.
Valentina Orellana Peralta & her mother were shopping for Christmas clothes on Dec. 23 at a Burlington store in the San Fernando Valley. They were inside a dressing room when they heard screams & Orellana Peralta locked the door.
Elsewhere in the store, 24-year-old Daniel Elena Lopez was behaving erratically & wielding a bike lock. He brutally attacked 2 women, including 1 who fell to the floor before he dragged her by her feet through the store’s aisles as she tried to crawl away.
Following 911 calls, Los Angeles police walked through the store in a formation, body-camera video shows. Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr., wielding a rifle, pushed to the front of the pack even as other officers repeatedly said “slow down” & “slow it down.”
The officers saw a woman crawling on the blood-stained floor & Lopez on the other side of the aisle. “Hold up! Hold up!” another officer screamed just before Jones fired 3 shots.
One of the bullets went through the dressing room wall & fatally struck Orellana Peralta as her mother, Soledad Peralta, held her.
Lopez was also shot & killed by police. An autopsy report showed he was on methamphetamine at the time of his death.
The lawsuit alleges wrongful death & negligence, as well as negligent infliction of emotional distress & seeks a jury trial & unspecified damages. In addition to the LAPD & Jones, the lawsuit also names the city of Los Angeles & Burlington Stores Inc. as defendants.
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