Jacksonville mother of 3 says home was struck by celebratory gunfire on NYE

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Southside Jacksonville parent of 3 is thankful that she, her household and their pets were not harmed erstwhile a slug came crashing done the extortion of their home.

It happened connected the nighttime of New Year’s Eve. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, it was the effect of celebratory gunfire, which is illegal.

This incidental occurred successful the Secret Cove subdivision and is unrelated to an incidental reported connected New Year’s Eve connected Jacksonville’s Northside.

Photo shows slug spread successful ceiling of home. (News4JAX.com)

The slug near a spread successful the ceiling of the location successful Secret Cove and landed connected the floor. News4JAX was asked not to amusement the location oregon place the homeowner who was with her 3 children and 2 pets erstwhile the slug came through.

News4JAX transgression and information adept Ken Jefferson says it was a occurrence nary 1 successful the location was hit. He besides says this is an illustration of the magnitude of velocity down a slug falling from the entity aft it was changeable into the air.

“It’s going to travel down astatine astir 200 mph with a unit that is capable to penetrate a extortion of a location and extremity up wrong that house,” helium said.

Jefferson pointed retired that each twelvemonth conscionable earlier New Year’s Eve, instrumentality enforcement agencies pass weapon owners astir however unsafe and unpredictable it is to sprout into the entity to observe the holiday.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office posted this informing connected societal media connected New Year’s Eve:

As we bring successful the caller year, delight person amusive without guns, what goes up indispensable travel down.
REMEMBER:
💥Celebratory gunfire is ILLEGAL.
💥Celebratory gunfire is DANGEROUS.
💥Celebratory gunfire is IRRESPONSIBLE.
Don’t enactment yourself oregon others astatine hazard of wounded - observe responsibly. pic.twitter.com/eC6wTsdcqB

— Jax Sheriff's Office (@JSOPIO) December 31, 2021

“It doesn’t substance what absorption you shoot,” Jefferson said. “If you sprout consecutive up oregon connected an space oregon a definite degree, that slug is going to onshore somewhere. To sprout it successful the aerial astatine the hazard of taking someone’s beingness is precise dangerous.”

And it could onshore you successful jailhouse facing a complaint of reckless discharge and adjacent negligent manslaughter if it leads to a idiosyncratic dying.

It’s unclear who fired the bullet.