TheEngineer
15 years ago

Falling bullet kills boy at church 

A four-year-old boy has been killed by a falling bullet that was fired into the air during New Year's Eve celebrations in the US.

Marquel Peters was playing a video game inside a church in the state of Georgia when the bullet pierced the roof and hit him in the head, local media reported.

He collapsed on the floor alongside his parents, bleeding, and was taken to hospital where he died.

"I saw his Nintendo game fall on the floor, and I heard a sound and I heard him scream a little bit and I looked around and all I saw was blood coming from his head," Marquel's mother Nathalee Peters told a local TV station."

"He was my only child ... I miss him, I loved him, he was so sweet," she told Sky News.

Ballistics experts told local media the bullet had most likely come from an AK-47 assault rifle, and may have been fired into the air up to five kilometres from the church.

Police believed the shooter may be unaware someone had been hurt by their bullet.

Marquel's family planned to return to the church - where they were regulars - for his funeral, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"I'm a faith believer, but it's just hard," his uncle Garry Peters said. "Why at church?"

According to the Journal-Constitution, the 350 people gathered inside heard a "loud pop" when the bullet pierced the roof .

"No one knew what it was," Mr Peters said.

After Marquel was taken to hospital, the congregation said a brief prayer for him before continuing with a planned concert, not realising his injuries were life-threatening, senior pastor Lloyd Phipps told the paper.

Soon after Marquel died, a six-year-old Italian boy was also shot by a stray bullet in Miami.

Andrea Fregonese was celebrating New Year's Eve with his family - only hours after authorities had urged people not to fire their guns in the air in celebration - when he was shot in the chest, apparently by a falling bullet.

His family were sitting at an outside restaurant at the time.

The mayor of Miami Tomas Regalado arranged for toys to be brought to Andrea at hospital, where he was in a serious but stable condition, to show "that we care and that we're sorry".



What a ridiculous tragedy.
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Nonstopdrivel
15 years ago
Celebratory fire . . . an idiotic concept. But not much more stupid than fireworks, which people fire at each other here in Germany.
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Cheesey
15 years ago
I saw this report on TV.
I never thought a bullet would have the power to kill by just falling. Especially since it had to go through the roof of the building as well.
It's VERY sad.
I would NEVER fire a gun into the air. I was taught to NEVER fire at ANYTHING unless you know for certain what you are shooting at, and what's beyond it. To fire up in the air is stupid.
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4PackGirl
15 years ago
how awful! 😞
RaiderPride
15 years ago
When I lived in Torrance California... It was like a war outside at New Years for about 30 seconds afterr midnight.

Los Angeles County Sherrif and LAPD police pull under freeway over-passes a couple of minutes before midnight and stay there until it stops.
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Cheesey
15 years ago
I can't understand HOW people can think it's ok to fire a gun in the air. The bullets HAVE to come down.
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TheEngineer
15 years ago

I can't understand HOW people can think it's ok to fire a gun in the air. The bullets HAVE to come down.

"Cheesey" wrote:



I wonder what proportion are apathetic and what proportion actually think the bullet leaves the stratosphere....
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zombieslayer
15 years ago


I wonder what proportion are apathetic and what proportion actually think the bullet leaves the stratosphere....

"TheEngineer" wrote:



Eng - It's not apathy but more a lot of the people who do this are sociopaths. My buddy in Houston lives in the ghetto there and they fire guns in the air all the time on New Years. Those people could really care less if it hits someone as long as it's not someone they know.
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RaiderPride
15 years ago
I remember when I lived in LA there was a drve by shooting at a Taco Bell.

Three blocks away a bullet went through a stain glass window in a church and hit a brides maid in the head standing at the alter. I do not hink she died. But you all get the point.
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