The mother of the 14-year-old girl killed by a cop’s bullet as she tried on Christmas dresses at a LA shopping center has slammed the LAPD, claiming officers left her daughter to die alone on the floor as they evacuated others.
killed by a cop’s bullet as she tried on Christmas dresses at a Los Angeles shopping center
“We started hugging each other tighter,” Peralta told a spray of reporters assembled outside LAPD headquarters. “We began praying. Praying for peace. Praying for safety. Praying for everybody. All of a sudden, we felt an explosion that threw us both to the ground.” Several people inside the store had called 911 about Elena-Lopez but offered contradictory information: one caller incorrectly said he was armed with a gun and had fired shots.
Speaking for the family, Crump said Valentina “was beautiful, intelligent, and had the whole world ahead of her. She made exceptional grades in an English-speaking school, even though English was not her native tongue…She dreamed of being an engineer, working in technology, building robots to make the world a better place.”
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