BURBANK, Calif.—Citing four reasons that include alleged judicial error, attorneys for the parents of a teen girl who was inadvertently shot to death by a Los Angeles police officer in a North Hollywood store are asking a judge to grant a new trial in their negligence lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles.
On May 7, a Burbank Superior Court jury ruled in favor of the city by a 9–3 margin.
The 14-year-old girl, Valentina Orellana-Peralta, was killed Dec. 23, 2021, while shopping with her mother for Christmas dresses at the Burlington store at 12121 Victory Blvd. The teen was in a second-floor dressing room when a bullet fired by Officer William Dorsey Jones passed through a wall and struck her….