Yes, it is still necessary that New Times reminds you all not to shoot your guns in the air to reign in 2026.
While watching fireworks on New Year’s Eve last year, 10-year-old Yaneliz Munguia was struck and killed by a stray bullet in northwest Miami-Dade County. Around 12:04 a.m., Mungia was lighting fireworks with her family outside their apartment near Allapattah when she suddenly collapsed. Her parents then discovered a gunshot wound to the back of her head. In Fort Lauderdale, 50-year-old Angel Nunes was killed by celebratory gunfire as he celebrated the new year embracing his partner in the backyard. Up in central Florida, 56-year-old grandmother Carmen Rosa Neira Ochoa was killed by a stray bullet as she watched fireworks from her screened-in backyard patio.
Ahead of this year’s New Year’s celebrations, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and the City of Miami Police Department are once again warning of the dangers of celebratory gunfire to prevent history from repeating itself…