Perla has lived all over California. She was born and raised in Orange County, went to UC Berkeley for her bachelor's, and worked in Bakersfield for her first job as a multimedia journalist.

ABC 10News reporter Perla Shaheen describes how a military jet crash off Shelter Island unfolded.

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