Who Is Valentina Orellana-Peralta, The LAPD Officer Shooting Victim?

Valentina Orellana-Peralta: Who Is She? Valentina Orellana-Peralta, a 14-year-old girl, was fatally shot by a Los Angeles Police Department officer.

Valentina Orellana-Peralta was looking for Christmas clothes with her mother on Thursday when she was struck by a police bullet that pierced through the wall of a dressing room on the store’s second floor.

According to the bodycam video released Monday, authorities believe a bullet fired by officers skipped off the store floor and traveled through the changing room partition, striking the adolescent on the opposite side.

How did Valentina Orellana die?

Soledad Peralta, Orellana-mother, Peralta’s says When something hit her, we both fell to the floor, and she died in my arms.” I didn’t know what else to do.

Seeing a son or daughter die in your arms is one of the most painful experiences a person can have.

Valentina was everything to us. Friends, family, and classmates. And now our lovely angel is no longer with us. Valentina, please give us the strength we need to bring you justice.”