A Florida man was arrested nearly three weeks after a grandmother was fatally struck by a falling stray bullet he shot in the air in apparent celebratory gunfire to welcome in 2025, according to authorities.
Carlos Manuel Tejada, 44, was charged with manslaughter by culpable negligence on Friday in the death of 56-year-old Carmen Rosa Neira Ochoa on Jan. 1.
Ochoa was with her two adult daughters watching New Year’s fireworks on her backyard patio in the city of Kissimmee when “all of a sudden she felt a sharp pain in her body and realized she had been shot,” police said.
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