The 14 year old girl was in a fitting room when she was touched by the ball of a police officer intervening for aggression.
Le Monde with AFP
A 14-year-old teenager was killed in a lost ball drawn by a police officer intervening for aggression in the store, lad on Mondage 27 December the Los Angeles police, who opened an investigation and Distributed the videos of the incident.
The drama occurred on December 23rd in a North Hollywood clothing store, near Los Angeles, where the police had been called for “an armed attack” in progress, according to the press release. In his call to the police, an employee of the store had actually indicated that the man brandished a heavy bike padlock he used to attempt to attack clients. In another emergency call, a client mentioned a firearm and shots but no weapon was found on the spot.
On their arrival, the police have discovered in the rays of the store a woman in blood “suffering from various wounds” but conscious, a few meters from the suspect. According to the videos of on-board cameras made public on Monday, one of the policemen, equipped with a rifle, pushed his colleagues armed with lighter weapons before opening the fire immediately on the suspect, touching him fatally. “Insuaded the police, a 14 year old girl was in a fitting room on the other side of a wall located directly behind the suspect” and this is only after the shooting that the agents have Discovered that the teenager was killed by a bullet.
Purchases for his “Quinceanera”
According to the first elements of the survey, “it seems that the victim was struck by a bullet that ricocked on the floor and penetrated the wall of the fitting room”, says the police. Valentina Orellana-Peralta was shopping with his mother, and she died “in the arms” of the latter during a Christmas dresses fitting, according to a family release published Monday night.
The Chief of the Los Angeles Police, Michel Moore, lamented “a chaotic incident that resulted in the death of an innocent child,” apologized to the family and committed to doing all the light “On the circumstances that led to this tragedy”. As such, he had asked for emergency calls, radio exchanges, embedded cameras and video surveillance images are made public on Monday.
“Unacceptable”
The man who provoked the intervention, aged 24 and already pursued for facts of violence, first posted at the foot of a rolling staircase where he had assaulted two clients, tempting from their Take their bag. Obviously very agitated and in a second state, we see it on video surveillance images remove your pants before going back upstairs. This is where he attacked from behind a third victim, striking him violently on the skull with his padlock.