*The Los Angeles Police Department released bodycam video footage and audio recordings Monday that shows the moments before and after an officer opened fire with a long rifle inside a North Hollywood Burlington store on Thursday, killing a 14-year-old girl and the assault suspect.
The footage captures the suspect’s erratic movements in the store, his attacks on multiple customers and the moments the officer opened fire. It also shows that police didn’t give any commands to the suspect, who was shot down the aisle from his bloodied victim. Video showed that the officer who opened fire was told more than a dozen times by other responding officers to “slow down” before he fired. That officer has been placed on administrative leave.
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None of the footage or audio released Monday show the girl, 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was shot and killed by a stray bullet. The LAPD said Monday it believed the bullet ricocheted off the ground and pierced the dressing room wall, where the girl was hiding with her mother, directly where the suspect was shot.
Watch the released bodycam footage of the shooting below.
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Evidence from the shooting – including 911 calls, police radio audio, body camera footage from responding officers and surveillance footage from inside the store – shows officers received conflicting information over whether the suspect had a gun.
The Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner ruled the girl’s death a homicide by a gunshot wound to the chest. Mourners left flowers and a votive candle outside the store in a makeshift memorial on Christmas. The coroner identified the male suspect as 24-year-old Daniel Elena Lopez.
Below is more video from the incident of the suspect attacking people before cops arrive.
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