At around the same time in Kissimmee, Florida, 56-year-old Carmen Rosa Neira Ochoa was hit by a bullet and killed while watching fireworks from a screened-in porch. She would’ve turned 57 on Saturday. www.kansascity.com/news/nation-... - ThreadSky

jenmascia.bsky.social • 59 days ago

At around the same time in Kissimmee, Florida, 56-year-old Carmen Rosa Neira Ochoa was hit by a bullet and killed while watching fireworks from a screened-in porch.

She would’ve turned 57 on Saturday. https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article297896968.html

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lulumctavish.bsky.social•59 days ago

Here’s another Florida one, https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/01/02/as-partners-embrace-apparent-stray-bullet-kills-man-at-fort-lauderdale-home-early-new-years-day/?share=sltatsranufmeplweaan

jenmascia.bsky.social•59 days ago

Thank you for flagging. How awful 💔

jenmascia.bsky.social•59 days ago

A 6-year-old girl in Omaha, Nebraska, was struck in the thigh by a bullet that came in through a bedroom window on New Year’s Eve.

The bullet narrowly missed a major artery. https://omaha.com/news/local/crime-courts/omaha-girl-6-injured-by-possible-celebratory-new-years-eve-gunfire/article_5836bed4-c865-11ef-b213-fb6f0259c21d.html

jenmascia.bsky.social•59 days ago

A 16-year-old girl in Chester, Pennsylvania was hit in the back by a bullet that came in through her wall as the clock struck midnight.

She’d been playing video games with her little brother.
https://6abc.com/post/teen-hit-apparent-celebratory-gunfire-new-years-eve-chester-pennsylvania/15738340/

jenmascia.bsky.social•59 days ago

A woman in her 30s was hit in the shoulder by a bullet that fell from the sky as she walked her dog in Louisville, Kentucky, two hours before midnight.

Louisville police received nearly 100 calls about gunshots on New Year’s Eve. https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/louisville-celebratory-gunfire-new-years-eve-woman-hit-shoulder-lmpd-crime/417-d636ee23-a831-4256-9b80-0632147e23e9

jenmascia.bsky.social•59 days ago

A 32-year-old woman was hit in the leg by a stray bullet in Houston at around 10 minutes after midnight.

The incident came just days after a bullet tore through the leg of a 12-year-old girl on Christmas Eve. https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/01/01/woman-injured-by-celebratory-gunfire-on-new-years-day-in-se-houston/

jenmascia.bsky.social•59 days ago

Shortly before dawn on Jan 1, a 39-year-old man in Jefferson County, Alabama, was struck by a bullet while asleep in his bed. His injuries are non-life-threatening. https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/jefferson-county-man-shot-while-in-bed-possibly-by-celebratory-gunfire/

jenmascia.bsky.social•59 days ago

A woman driving through Grantville, Georgia, was hit in the leg by a bullet that came in through the windshield shortly after midnight. https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-woman-hit-apparent-new-years-eve-celebratory-gunfire

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