The teenager was in a changing room with her mother trying on dresses for her 15th birthday party.
Los Angeles police have killed two people, including a 14-year-old girl trying on new outfits, after opening fire inside a clothing store.
Police say the shooting came after reports of shots being fired by a man inside the store. The suspect was shot dead, but no gun was found.The incident took place late on Thursday morning, around 11:45 local time , at a Burlington department store in North Hollywood amid a throng of holiday shoppers.
A fire department official told reporters that officers had arrived to find "an individual who was in the process of assaulting another" on an upper level of the store, prompting them to open fire. Officers then found a hole in the nearby wall of a dressing room behind the suspect, and the teenage girl dead inside. On Friday, the LA Country Coroner's Office identified her as Valentina Orellana-Peralta.
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