A wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department for an officer's fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl in a clothing store is set to begin trial Wednesday.
Valentina Orellana-Peralta was shopping for Christmas clothes with her mother at a Burlington store in the San Fernando Valley’s North Hollywood neighborhood on Dec. 23, 2021, when she was struck by a bullet that had gone through the dressing room wall.
