the other side, 14-year-old valentina peralta is fatally hit. her mother speaking through tears tuesday. she said her teenage daughter died in her arms while trying on a dress for upcoming christmas party. never should this 14-year-old girl end up as collateral damage at a shopping plaza. 911, what is the emergency. i hava cust in my store attacking customers. reporter: the moments leading up to tense exchange captured on body camera footage released by lapd. he s wrecking things. reporter: authorities say 24-year-old daniel lopez attacked multiple women in the north hollywood department store. alana lopez seen beating one person with a heavy duty bike lock. employees trying to warn shoppers inside. customers, evacuate.
she says her teenage daughter died in her arms while trying on a dress for an upcoming christmas party. never should this 14-year-old little girl ended up as collateral damage at a shopping plaza. evacuate the building! 911, what s the emergency? i have a hostile customer in my store attacking attacking customers! reporter: the moments leading up to the tense exchange captured on body camera footage released by lapd zplp he s breaking things. reporter: authorities say 24-year-old daniel elena lopez attacked multiple women in the north hollywood department store. elama lopez seen brutally beating one person with a heavy-duty bike lock. employees heard on 911 calls trying to warn shoppers inside. attention customers, evacuate! reporter: but not everyone could. the young girl and her mother, caught in the cross fire.
store and it appears that the subject was attempting to move away from the officers and the officers in their mind, yes, they know he s swinging a chain but also went there to the store believing it was an active shooter so to allow him to move throughout the store, he could encounter other victims, take hostages so in the moment, the officers were reacting to what they knew and what they saw the victim that was stand income front of them. we saw the idea of swinging in the bike lock, this metal contraption at the end of a bike lock hitting somebody until she was bloodied and dragging somebody down a hall. criminal behavior but the video shows ten officers all armed against one suspect and given what he s doing, they cautiously enter the store calling it a diamond formation where one officer takes a lead with a rifle and things escalate when
the suspect daniel lopez assaulting several women at a burlington department store before police arrive. 911 and radio calls thursday report the assault in progress. then reports of a possible shooting. be advised there are customers and employees hiding inside the location. reporter: police body cam footage shows officers moving up an escalator, guns drawn and finding a woman on the ground after she was hit repeatedly by a metal bike lock. one officer fires three shots killing the suspect. no gun was found near the body. then they found valentina in a dressing room. a 14-year-old girl was in the changing room behind a wall behoond the suspect and out of the officer s view. reporter: valentina s father breaking down talking tuesday about valentina s life and her dreams. her father s attorney says valentina s family wants justice. what does justice mean to
analyst. anthony, um, as a former officer, what stands out to you about this video? i mean, the thing that i am thinking about here is okay, they are dealing with a suspect with a heavy bike lock. that use of force i i assume is going to be looked at, whether that was appropriate? the use of force must be looked at. at the time the officers make contact with the suspect who, in my opinion, clearly was going through a mental-health crisis. was the use of the patrol rifle justified? and, jim, if you re going to fire a 223 round inside of a department store, those rounds