South Florida community leaders and law enforcement officials are teaming up once again to ask New Year's Eve revelers to refrain from shooting stray bullets into the air.
The annual "No More Stray Bullets" press conference took place Tuesday morning at Miami Police Headquarters located at 400 Northwest 2nd Avenue in Miami.
It's estimated that stray bullets from New Year's Eve celebratory gunfire injure hundreds of people every year, some fatally.
Such was the case in the tragic death of 5-year-old Rickia Isaac who was killed by a stray bullet on New Year's Eve in Miami in 1997.
The awareness campaign aims to inform the community that firing guns into the air is not only an inappropriate way to celebrate the New Year, it's also a crime.
