{"id":1169710,"date":"2021-12-29T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169710"},"modified":"2021-12-29T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T20:05:01","slug":"parents-of-teen-girl-killed-in-lapd-shooting-at-burlington-coat-factory-break-their-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-of-teen-girl-killed-in-lapd-shooting-at-burlington-coat-factory-break-their-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of teen girl killed in LAPD shooting at Burlington Coat Factory break their silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparents-of-teen-girl-killed-in-lapd-shooting-at-burlington-coat-factory-break-their-silence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169710&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2623375\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2623375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2623375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21362725203373.jpg\" alt=\"Juan Pablo Orellana Larenas, father of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, speaks during a news conference outside the Los Angeles Police Department headquaters in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. The parents of Valentina Orellana-Peralta - the 14-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet fired by an LAPD officer at a North Hollywood clothing store last week, and their attorneys held a news conference to discuss the family&#039;s demand for transparency from the Los Angeles Police Department. (AP Photo\/Ringo H.W. Chiu)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21362725203373.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21362725203373-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21362725203373-655x437.jpg 655w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21362725203373-768x512.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2623375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Pablo Orellana Larenas, father of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, speaks during a news conference outside the Los Angeles Police Department headquaters in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. The parents of Valentina Orellana-Peralta \u2013 the 14-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet fired by an LAPD officer at a North Hollywood clothing store last week. (AP Photo\/Ringo H.W. Chiu)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:52 AM PT \u2013 Wednesday, December 29, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The parents of a teenage girl killed by an alleged Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer\u2019s stray bullet tearfully recounted the tragic incident.&nbsp; In a press conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, the family of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta said they are devastated by her death.<\/p>\n<p>Valentina was killed last Thursday after allegedly being shot by a stray bullet fired by police officers in a Burlington Coat Factory store while the officers were shooting at an armed suspect. The girls father, Juan Pablo Orellana, said he cannot put into words the loss of his only biological daughter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen my wife Soledad, Valentina\u2019s mother, told me that she had been shot and killed by an officer from LAPD at the shopping plaza..it is like my whole heart has been ripped out of my body,\u201d he stated. \u201cI don\u2019t have words to describe what I\u2019m feeling.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the press conference, the father held up an unopened skateboard that was meant to be gifted to the teenager on Christmas, but would tragically not make it onto the hands of Valentina.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt arrived the day after they killed her\u2026this was for her to go skating throughout her school campus,\u201d Juan&nbsp; explained. \u201cNow we will bring it to her grave so she can skate among the angels.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 14-year-old girl came to Los Angeles from her native Chile earlier this year while dreaming of becoming an engineer and American citizen, unfortunately her life was unexpectedly cut short.<\/p>\n<p>The family\u2019s attorney, Ben Crump, emphasized how the tragic incident has severely affected Valentina\u2019s parents, especially since it occurred just days before Christmas and the New Year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cMr. Juan Pablo is still trying to figure out how to get a decent night\u2019s sleep, he hasn\u2019t slept since his only biological child was killed,\u201d Crump noted. \u201cHer mother continues to talk about being pulled away, leaving her daughter lying there alone.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The attorney has called for justice for the teenage girl and said somebody needs to be held accountable for her tragic death.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThere are so many questions that they want answered,\u201d he stated. \u201cAnd hopefully, we can get all these answers together because Valentina\u2019s life matters.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Police Department said they have placed the officer who fired the shot on administrative leave pending an investigation.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-rand-paul-highlights-govt-waste-in-annual-festivus-report\/\">Sen. Rand Paul Highlights Govt. Waste In Annual Festivus Report<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}