Bodycam footage shows the assault suspect at a shopping mall in North Hollywood, California, U.S., December 23, 2021 in this still image taken from a video released by the LAPD after the accidental shooting of a teenage girl killed in a clothing store when a bullet pierced the wall of her dressing room as officers opened fire on an assault suspect. Video taken December 23, 2021.
“It is like my whole heart has been ripped out of my body,” her father, Juan Pablo Orellana Larenas, said in a statement read by the family’s attorney, Ben Crump, during a news conference outside of Los Angeles Police Department headquarters. “We want justice for our daughter. Valentina’s life mattered.”The parents wept as they stood next to a wreath with flowers and photographs of their Chilean-born daughter.
Her mother had been working on documentation to stay in the United States with her daughter permanently. Audio-video footage from several officers’ body-worn cameras showed the final, violent moments of the incident as police arrive on the scene with guns drawn and close in on the suspect, who was bludgeoning a woman.