The Los Angeles Police Department released video footage of the fatal shooting of a trans sex worker last month at a Pacoima motel.
The footage was released on Mar. 9 which shows LAPD officers responding to a 911 call where the caller indicated they were a victim of a kidnapping.
Officers were called to a Pacoima hotel in the 10000 block of San Fernando Road on the morning of Feb. 7.
The video shows the officers arriving and standing in the doorway of the motel room while the victim is holding a knife and not following commands to put the weapon down.
The video doesn’t appear to show anyone else in the room.
The video shows the victim, identified as Linda Becerra Moran, 30, began to approach the officers with knife in hand, an officer-involved shooting occurred.
Becerra Moran had reported being held against her will in the motel room as a possible victim of sex trafficking, said Soma Snakeoil, executive director of the Sidewalk Project, a Skid Row nonprofit.
Moran was rushed to a local hospital where she was placed on life support. Due to her being an Ecudorean native, the hospital made the decision to remove her from life support.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office has not officially identified her as they are still seeking to contact Moran’s next of kin.
It is unknown whether LAPD has either identified or arrested her alleged kidnapper(s).
