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14-year-old girl killed while police fatally shot at assault suspect in Burlington store in NoHo
KTLA“While conducting that search for the suspect, the officers encountered an individual who was in the process of assaulting another, and an officer involved shooting occurred,” Spell said. “The suspect was struck by gunfire and was subsequently taken into custody.”
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded and declared two people dead at the scene.
One of the people who died was the suspect, who was shot and killed by police, according to LAPD.
The second person was a 14-year-old girl, who was found later, according to LAPD Assistant Chief Dominic Choi
When officers were shooting at the suspect, one of the officer’s rounds penetrated a wall that was behind the suspect. Beyond that wall was a dressing room, and when officers searched the dressing room, they found the girl had been fatally struck by the gunfire, police said in a later briefing.
“You can’t see into the dressing rooms and it just looks like a straight wall of drywall,” Choi said.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded and declared two people dead at the scene.
One of the people who died was the suspect, who was shot and killed by police, according to LAPD.
The second person was a 14-year-old girl, who was found later, according to LAPD Assistant Chief Dominic Choi
When officers were shooting at the suspect, one of the officer’s rounds penetrated a wall that was behind the suspect. Beyond that wall was a dressing room, and when officers searched the dressing room, they found the girl had been fatally struck by the gunfire, police said in a later briefing.
“You can’t see into the dressing rooms and it just looks like a straight wall of drywall,” Choi said.
Emphasis is mine. Another only-guns-were-cops death.
Young girl getting new clothes. But it's not the cops fault. It looked like a wall.
