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Dogs adorably decorate Christmas tree after being left home alone. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump joined the parents and read a translated statement written by Valentina's mother, who revealed that she and her daughter were hugging each other and praying inside the dressing room when the bullet struck the year-old in the chest, killing her just two days before Christmas. Speaking in Spanish and choking back tears, Valentina's mother, Soledad Peralta, said: 'She died in my arms.
I couldn't do anything. Having a child die in your arms is one of the most painful things you can imagine. Soledad Peralta said Valentina, 14, died in her arms, and there was nothing she could do for her daughter after she was shot by a police officer's stray bullet. Valentina's father told reporters his daughter believed the US was the safest country in the world, and her greatest wish was to become an American citizen. The girl's grieving parents were joined by civil rights attorney Ben Crump second left.
The grief-stricken mother added: 'Now our sweet angel is gone forever. The girl's family said they had left their native Chile to get away from violence and injustice in search of a better life in the US.
The father said he was in Chile for the holidays when his wife called him, telling him their daughter had been killed, adding in Spanish: 'my world collapsed on me. Police shot and killed suspect Daniel Elena-Lopez, 24, after he allegedly attacked two women.
Valentina's parents said the teen loved skateboarding and had dreams of becoming an engineer to build robots. Attorneys representing the Orellana Peralta family said they want the LAPD to release all the video from the crime scene and for the officer who fired the deadly shot to be held accountable. The press conference came a day after the police released surveillance and police body camera footage from the shooting.
In surveillance footage from the Burlington store in North Hollywood on December 23 around Elena-Lopez was in the process of beating a bleeding woman with a steel bike lock when police arrived, cops said. The unidentified officer who fired the fatal bullet can be heard on his body camera footage yelling 'victim down,' 'he's hitting her to the right side,' and 'she's bleeding, she's bleeding!
He runs up to the Elena-Lopez, who flails on the ground, as another officer tends to the injured woman. The moment when the officers found the slain girl in the dressing room was not shown on the released police footage.
Daniel Elena-Lopez, 24, can be seen laid out on the ground after he was shot by the Los Angeles Police Department officer. Behind him, Valentina Orellana Peralta, 14, was hiding in a dressing room with her mother. Pictured is the unnamed officer's view of the suspect, Daniel Elena-Lopez, who had just beaten the bloodied, unidentified woman on the floor with a bike lock. Directly behind the suspect is the dressing room where Peralta and her mother were hiding as the chaos unfolded.
Behind the suspect, Orellana Peralta and her mother were hiding in a dressing room. Officers can be seen entering the dressing room as another group of police attend to Elena-Lopez. The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave for at least two weeks as the incident is under investigation, although officials said a full probe into the shooting could take up to a year.
Police also shared the events that led up to the officer-involved shooting. In CCTV footage from around 11 am, Elena-Lopez can be seen entering the Burlington store, pushing his bike while wearing a tank top and shorts. LAPD Capt. Stacy Spell said in a pre-recorded briefing within the press package that Elena-Lopez took his bike to the second floor of the store before laying it in an aisle then he began trying on clothes.
Police said he was asked to move it by a female store employee, and he responded by smashing a nearby computer monitor.
He then hit the glass railing, took the escalator downstairs, and tried to take another woman's purse. Elena-Lopez can be seen laying on the ground after he was shot from another angle. When the woman resisted, Elena-Lopez tackled her and tried to attack her with the lock. The woman, who police have yet to identify and question, was able to run out of the store. Elena-Lopez then attempted to grab another woman as she came down the escalator. She, too, was able to break away and run out of the store.
He then went back up to the second floor, where he approached a woman pushing a shopping cart from behind and hit her over the head with the bike lock. She crawled away, but Elena-Lopez dragged her back toward the dressing rooms and continued beating her.
Daniel Elena-Lopez can be pictured lunging at a woman on the first floor of the outlet, trying to take her purse and hit her with his bike chain before she gets away. Daniel Elena-Lopez can be seen beating the unidentified woman was his bike lock as she holds up her hands to protect her head. One call is from a store employee who tells the operator that there is a 'hostile customer in my store attacking customers' who is 'walking around the store looking for people' and 'breaking things.
She can be heard frantically, repeatedly telling customers to evacuate the store, and tells the operator that she and other employees have barricaded themselves in one of the store's offices. The Los Angeles Medical Examiner's Office ruled the teen's death a homicide from the gunshot wound to the chest.
The parents of Valentina Orellana Peralta, Soledad Peralta center and Juan Pablo Orellana Larenas right will hold a press conference on Tuesday demanding transparency from the Los Angeles Police Department in their investigation into their daughter's killing.
Valentina Orellana Peralta, 14, pictured as a child was shot and killed in a Burlington dressing room after an unidentified police officer's spray bullet struck her in the chest. Pictured is a petition demanding justice for the slain teen. I am profoundly sorry for the loss of this young girl's life and I know there are no words that can relieve the unimaginable pain for the family,' Police Chief Michel Moore said on Thursday.
Spell said the department is still seeking out unidentified witnesses and victims, and will continue to investigate the shooting over the next several months. When the department's Critical Incident Review Division completes its investigation, Spell said, findings will be sent to Moore, who will then make a recommendation to the Civilian Board of Police Commissioners. The board will evaluate whether the officer's tactics, drawing and exhibiting a weapon and his use of deadly force were justified.
A year-old girl who was shot dead by a Los Angeles police officer's stray bullet during Thursday's confrontation with an assault suspect at a Burlington Coat Factory was in a dressing room trying on gowns for a quinceanera with her mother.
Pictured: Shoppers are seen outside the store after the shooting.
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