A 9-year-old boy was shot within the leg by a stray bullet close to his house shortly after midnight on New 12 months’s Eve, in accordance with a San Antonio Police Division incident report.
SAPD is investigating who fired the bullet, however don’t have any details about potential suspects at the moment.
The boy was within the entrance yard of his East Aspect house close to Delmar Avenue and I-10 when he was shot.
His mom, Gina Martinez, advised KSAT that she seen one thing burning on his pant leg, and utilized stress on the bleeding after realizing her son had been shot.
He was taken to a hospital and launched after having the bullet eliminated and receiving stitches. San Antonio Police are investigating who fired the bullet that struck the boy.
It’s not the primary time this has occurred in San Antonio. Throughout final 12 months’s New 12 months’s Eve celebration, one other 9-year-old boy was struck by a stray bullet whereas in his room.
These incidents had been possible the results of celebratory gunfire, a follow that metropolis and state leaders need to crack down on.
In response to elevated resident calls about stray bullets throughout celebrations, the town’s Governance Committee, which critiques new coverage initiatives, handed a movement asking that the town roll out a public service marketing campaign referred to as “Name the Photographs,” to encourage residents to report gunfire and stray bullets.
The marketing campaign formally began in June.
State Rep. Liz Campos, whose district contains San Antonio, launched Home Invoice 2101 final legislative session to get a gunfire reporting program in Texas. This system would present regulation enforcement location info of the place photographs had been heard to assist regulation enforcement examine.
The invoice didn’t move, however Campos mentioned on Fb she would refile the invoice this 12 months, citing the latest taking pictures.
“This youngster’s harm exhibits we can not wait,” she wrote. “Our neighborhood deserves safer streets, sooner response, and actual options — not silence.”
