‘What goes up must come down’: Girl who just celebrated her 10th birthday killed by stray bullet fired into the air at midnight on New Year’s Eve, cops say

Yanelis Munguia

Yanelis Munguia (GoFundMe).

Police in Florida are looking for the person responsible for firing the celebratory gunshot in the air at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day that killed a 10-year-old girl in Miami.

According to Miami-Dade police, the girl, Yanelis Munguia, and her family were out celebrating in the area of NW 27 Avenue and NW 21 Street when she suddenly collapsed minutes after midnight on New Year’s Day. Family members rushed to her aid, and realized she had a gunshot wound to the back of her head. They put her in the back of a car and started to look for a hospital while calling 911.

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Hialeah Fire Rescue met the victim’s family in the area of Palm Avenue and West Third Street and rushed the girl to Jackson Ryder Trauma Center where doctors pronounced her dead.

“It is with deep sorrow that we share the tragic loss of a 10-year-old girl, who was killed due to celebratory gunfire on New Years Day near NW 27 Avenue and NW 21 Street in Miami,” police said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “This heartbreaking incident serves as a devastating reminder that what goes up must come down. Bullets fired into the air can take innocent lives.”

Yanelis had just celebrated her 10th birthday on Dec. 26. The family shared a video with local media of her playing with sparklers alongside her 6-year-old brother.

“I don’t want what happened to my granddaughter to happen to anyone else,” Ramon Valdizon, the victim’s grandfather, told local ABC affiliate WSVN.

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