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Footage shows LAPD officer firing shots that killed a suspect and a teen girl in a dressing room

Updated December 28, 2021 at 4:50 p.m. EST|Published December 27, 2021 at 6:54 p.m. EST
The Los Angeles Police Department on Dec. 27 released video footage of a Dec. 23 shooting in which an officer killed a 14-year-old girl inside a dressing room. (Video: Los Angeles Police Department)
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An earlier version of this report, which relied on information from Los Angeles police, said Valentina Orellana-Peralta had been trying on quinceañera dresses when she was fatally shot in a dressing room. Her family later said she was trying on Christmas clothes.

The Los Angeles Police Department on Monday released video footage from a shooting Thursday in which an officer killed a teen girl inside a clothing store after firing at an assault suspect, who also died.

Valentina Orellana-Peralta, 14, was fatally shot while inside a North Hollywood Burlington clothing store’s dressing room with her mother, trying on Christmas clothes, the Los Angeles Times reported. Officers fatally shot the suspect, later identified as 24-year-old Daniel Elena Lopez, and struck the wall behind him. Orellana-Peralta was on the other side.