Valentina Orellana-Peralta was 14 when she was killed while shopping for a quinceañera dress with her mother at a Burlington in North Hollywood on December 23, 2021. The pair were inside a dressing room when a disturbance outside—later caused by a man identified as 24-year-old Daniel Elena Lopez attacking customers with a heavy-duty bike lock—prompted 911 calls reporting a possible active shooter around 11:45 a.m. Officers arriving found Lopez assaulting another person. Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr. fired his rifle three times; one round ricocheted off the floor, traveled through a wall, and fatally struck Valentina in the chest.

Lopez was also killed at the scene. The shooting drew multiple investigations, and the department released bodycam, surveillance and 911 recordings. In April 2024 the California Attorney General declined to file criminal charges against the officer, and in May 2026 a Los Angeles County jury found neither Officer Jones nor the LAPD liable in the family’s wrongful-death suit.

If anyone was in the store that day or has additional information about what happened inside the Burlington, please come forward.