Trial to begin in lawsuit over fatal Los Angeles police shooting of 14-year-old girl in 2021
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By Jaimie Ding
Published on April 8, 2026.
A wrongful-death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department is set to begin trial in 2021. Valentina Orellana-Peralta, 14, was fatally shot by Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr. while she was shopping for Christmas clothes at a Burlington store. The lawsuit alleges wrongful death, negligence, and the negligent infliction of emotional distress. It also alleges that the LAPD failed to adequately train and supervise the responding officers. The Los Angeles police Commission ruled in 2022 that Jones was justified in firing once but his subsequent shots were out of policy.
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