Texas man watching New Year's fireworks dies of stray bullet

[onehandle]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The death of a Houston man killed by a stray bullet while watching New Year's Eve fireworks with his wife in front of his house has been ruled a homicide, a medical examiner's office said on Friday.

Javier Suarez Rivera, 43, was standing on the edge of his driveway when he dropped to the ground. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences said the man died from a single gunshot wound to the head.

Paramedics were called, and they provided medical assistance, but Rivera was pronounced dead at the scene, Houston police said.

Houston police said they believed the shot was part of celebratory gunfire on New Year’s Eve. No arrests have been made in the case.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/02/us-usa-texas-death-idUSKBN0KB1B420150102

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Guns just make life more interesting.

[Enrique]

1. they had announcements here on the radio

telling people not to shoot guns to celebrate on New Years. I'm in Florida.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. So terrible, his poor wife. Comfort and hugs.

There were warnings on tv in New Mexico. Babies have been accidentally shot in their beds from New Years gunfire.

[RebelOne]

3. There was a similar incident here in the Atlanta area.

Fortunately, it was not fatal. But a little boy was killed by a celebratory gunshot in church several years ago.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/woman-hit-celebratory-gunshots-while-watching-tv/njd79/

[Sunlei]

4. This New Years in Houston, I have never heard so much gunfire.

[christx30]

5. Idiots like that shooter

need to take a prison course in basic Newtonian physics. But definitely needs to get prison, the dissuade people from being idiots with firearms.

[LisaL]

12. Unfortunately police would have to find the shooter first.

Which doesn't seem very likely.

[mahannah]

6. Celebratory gunfire is just foolish.

[Thinkingabout]

7. This is almost a yearly occurrence, where in the hell does the shooter think the bullet is going?

It should be a big fine for anyone shooting a gun in the air. Some years back a father and brother was shooting guns in the air and the bullet came back down and struck his daughter and killed her. It isn't fun, it is dangerous and needs to stop.

[Doctor_J]

8. Would you be happier if he'd been killed by a stray baseball bat???

Queue the talking points right here.

[CreekDog]

10. One would think reading this story

that the most upsetting thing would not be the offhand, innocuous statement posted below it.

one would think.

[sakabatou]

9. *sighs*

[Nay]

11. A little 7-yr-old boy was killed the same way here in Richmond a couple of

years ago on the Fourth of July. It was heartbreaking. He was watching fireworks with his dad when the bullet came almost straight down into his little head.

[jberryhill]

13. "has been ruled a homicide"

From the "no shit, really?" department.

[McCamy Taylor]

14. I think this is becoming a standard event in the south on New Years.

[jdenver_2624]

15. Wow, talk about a true case of horrific luck.

May the poor man RIP. This is why further gun control is needed in this country, otherwise more such tragedies will occur in the future.

[Amethyst Ring]

16. What goes up must come down

but, hey, gravity is just a theory, right?

[NickB79]

17. My neighbor/coworker was shooting a shotgun in his backyard on New Year's

He may or may not have been drunk at the time.

This is the same guy who came into work two weeks ago with a gash across his forehead because he'd never fired a scoped shotgun before, and the recoil he wasn't expecting sent the gun smashing into his face the first time he shot it.

Fucking idiots.

[Igel]

18. He's one of the people who sat in high school science

and was told about things like Newton's 3rd law said, "When am I ever going to use this?"


Same for projectile motion.

"When am I ever going to use this?" "

When you're about to fire a gun into the air and think, Wait--that's going to come back down. And when it does, it may kill or hurt somebody. So you're going to use this to keep from being an idiot and killing a neighbor or your own family member."

"Huh? I don't get it. Can I go to the bathroom?"

[valerief]

22. You don't understand. Shooting the gun makes his penis bigger. That's all that matters to him. nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. Meanwhile, in France:

New Year’s Eve Car Fires Dropped By 12% In France To A Still Crazy 940

[valerief]

21. What does that have to do with getting killed with some ammosexual's stray bullet? nt

[valerief]

20. Ammosexuals will be the death of us all. nt