A 14-year-old girl was also accidentally shot by a police officer at a convenience store in Los Angeles where a man attacked several women. Sky News.
On December 23, 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta was at a store called Burlington Coat Factory when she was shot in the booth wall. The policeman shot a suspect who attacked several people in the store. The girl died instantly.
The Los Angeles Police Department uploaded a video to YouTube.
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The suspect’s name is Daniel Elena Lopez, who also attacked two women in the store. The footage shows the man apparently walking into the store with his bike unharmed, then suddenly attacking a woman on the escalator with the bike lock. The woman managed to escape, and the man left the shop for 90 seconds, then came back, at which point he attacked the other woman with the lock, He was navigating through the lines trying to escape.
Valentina Orellana-Peralta and her mother hid from the attacker in the booth, where the girl was shot. Authorities believe the bullet first hit the ground, then exited from there and burrowed through a drywall wall. The Los Angeles police expressed their condolences to the girl’s family and opened an investigation.
The police arrived at the scene and the attacker was shot dead, and he was also killed at the scene.
