Nataly Aguilar still shakes and hyperventilates when she recalls the night that an alcohol-fueled prom after-party, hosted at an off-duty LAPD officer's home in Santa Clarita, ended with the officer pointing a shotgun at her and threatening her life.
“I thought I was going to die,” the 17-year-old said during an October interview with L.A. TACO, six months after the April 2024 incident.
It was sometime after three in the morning when Aguilar decided it was time to head home after spending roughly five hours partying in off-duty LAPD Officer Vincent Deglinnocenti’s backyard with Deglinnocenti’s own daughter and more than 100 other teens.
Just before she left, a physical fight broke out between Rachel Varon—a Hart High School campus supervisor at the time, whom Aguilar knew from school—and Varon’s own teenage daughter.
Aguilar missed the altercation. But she saw the elder Varon crying outside afterward and tried to console her.