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   From: killer@cops.usa   
      
   LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police fatally shot a 14-year-old girl who was   
   in a clothing store dressing room Thursday when officers fired on an   
   assault suspect and a bullet went through the wall and struck the girl,   
   authorities said.   
      
   Police also fatally shot the suspect Thursday morning at a Burlington   
   store in the North Hollywood area of the San Fernando Valley, police said.   
      
   Witnesses told KCBS-TV that a man began acting erratically, threatening to   
   throw items from the upper floor, and attacked a woman with a bicycle lock   
   shortly before noon as the store was crowded with holiday shoppers.   
      
   Officers answered a report of an assault and others of shots being fired,   
   police said. Investigators have not found a gun at the scene.   
      
   The suspect was shot and died at the store but one of the bullets went   
   through drywall behind the man and killed the girl, who was in a changing   
   room with her mother, police said.   
      
   Officers found the teenager dead after seeing a hole in "a solid wall that   
   you can't see behind," LAPD Assistant Chief Dominic Choi said.   
      
   Investigators didn't immediately know whether she was in the dressing room   
   before the violence began or ran in there to hide, he said.   
      
   "This chaotic incident resulting in the death of an innocent child is   
   tragic and devastating for everyone involved," Police Chief Michel Moore   
   said in a statement late Thursday night. "I am profoundly sorry for the   
   loss of this young girl's life and I know there are no words that can   
   relieve the unimaginable pain for the family."   
      
   Moore promised a "thorough, complete and transparent investigation" into   
   the shooting and said a critical incident video that will include 911   
   calls, body camera and other video will be released by Monday.   
      
   The names of the girl and the suspect weren't immediately released, and   
   the woman who was attacked is not being identified.   
      
   Investigators were trying to determine whether the assault was random or   
   targeted. Choi said they don't believe the teenager was related to the   
   person who was attacked.   
      
   Police found a heavy metal cable lock near the suspect, Choi said.   
      
   The California Department of Justice was investigating the shooting,   
   Attorney General Rob Bonta said.   
      
   News reports showed a woman with a bloodied face, who appeared to be the   
   assault victim, being placed in an ambulance.   
      
   The victim was taken to the hospital with moderate to serious injuries,   
   Fire Department spokesperson Nicholas Prange said. Choi said she had   
   wounds to her head, arms and face.   
      
   The shooting recalled a July 21, 2018, confrontation in which LAPD   
   officers accidentally shot and killed a woman at a Trader Joe's market.   
   Officers got into a gunfight with a man who authorities say shot his   
   grandmother and girlfriend before leading police on a chase that ended   
   when he crashed his car outside the market.   
      
   A police bullet killed Melyda Corado, 27, the assistant store manager, as   
   she ran toward the store's entrance after hearing the car crash.   
      
   The suspect, Gene Evin Atkins, took employees and shoppers hostage for   
   three hours before surrendering, authorities said.   
      
   Atkins has pleaded not guilty to the killing.   
      
   Prosecutors found two police officers acted lawfully when they returned   
   Atkins' gunfire.   
      
   https://www.npr.org/2021/12/24/1067766921/l-a-police-kill-teenage-girl-   
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