Video from the tragic incident in Los Angeles: How the police killed the 14-year-old in the store

The video from the tragic incident with them was released police officers shot at a suspect inside a store and killed a 14-year-old girl with a stray bullet which was in a rehearsal room in North Hollywood near Los Angeles.

According to police, on December 23 police officers went to one clothes shop in North Hollywood, near Los Angeles, where an “armed robbery” was taking place. Arriving there, they saw a bloodied woman, who had many wounds, a short distance from a suspect. They fired against this man and killed him on the spot.

“Unbeknownst to the police, a 14-year-old girl, Valentina Oregiana-Peralta, was in the rehearsal room, on the other side of a wall, just behind the suspect.” writes the announcement of the police. Only after they neutralized the man did they realize that the teenage girl had been fatally hit by a bullet.

According to the first data of the investigation, the girl seems to have been hit by one of the bullets thrown by a police officer.

Caution the video contains hard images:

The girl was shopping with her mother for her birthday

Valentina was shopping with her mother in anticipation of her birthday. He would be turning 15, a very important age for Latinos and Hispanics in the United States. The celebration, which they call “kinesanera”, is essentially an adult ceremony for young girls.

Los Angeles Police Chief Michael Moore spoke of a “chaotic incident” that resulted in the death of “an innocent child”. He apologized to the family and vowed to shed light on the circumstances that led to this tragedy. For this purpose, the telephone calls to the police, the conversations of the police on the radio and the videos from the wireless cameras of the police but also from the security cameras of the store were made public.

Caution the video contains hard images:

According to local media, no weapon was found on the suspect, a 24-year-old man who had been prosecuted for domestic violence and used a heavy padlock to hit his victim.

Lulac, one of the most important organizations defending the rights of Hispanics, criticized the police for the way they acted. “It is unacceptable for Los Angeles police officers to open fire inside a crowded store in the middle of a Christmas market without knowing for sure if the suspect was armed,” said Lulac president Domingo Garcia.

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