<Li> July 29, 2007: At least four people were killed and 17 others wounded by celebratory gunfire in the capital city of Baghdad, Iraq, following the victory of the national football team in the AFC Asian Cup . Celebratory gunfire occurred despite warnings issued by Iraqi security forces and the country's leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al - Sistani, who forbade the gunfire with a religious fatwā . </Li> <Li> July 22, 2003: More than 20 people were killed in Iraq from celebratory gunfire following the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay in 2003 . </Li> <Ul> <Li> July 1, 2017: A 13 - year - old boy, Noah Inman, was struck in his head and killed while playing basketball in the street . </Li> <Li> January 1, 2017: Armando Martinez, a Texas state Representative, was wounded in the head by a stray bullet during a New Year's celebration . </Li> <Li> January 1, 2015: A 43 - year - old man, Javier Suarez Rivera, was struck in his head and killed while watching fireworks with his family in Houston . </Li> <Li> July 4, 2013: A 7 - year - old boy, Brendon Mackey, was struck in the top of his head and killed while walking with his father shortly before 9 p.m. amid a large crowd prior to the fireworks display over the Swift Creek Reservoir, outside Richmond, Virginia . </Li> <Li> January 1, 2013: A 10 - year - old girl, Aaliyah Boyer, collapsed after being struck in the back of the head while watching the neighborhood fireworks in Eklton, Maryland . She died two days later of her injuries . </Li> <Li> July 4, 2012: A 34 - year - old woman, Michelle Packard, was struck in the head and killed while watching the fireworks with her family . The police believe the shot could have come from a mile away . </Li> <Li> January 1, 2010: A four - year - old boy, Marquel Peters, was struck by a bullet and killed inside his church The Church of God of Prophecy in Decatur, GA . It is presumed the bullet may have penetrated the roof of the church around 12: 20AM . </Li> <Li> December 28, 2005: A 23 - year - old U.S. Army private on leave after basic training fired a 9mm pistol into the air in celebration with friends, according to police, one of the bullets came through a fifth - floor apartment window in the New York City borough of Queens, striking a 28 - year - old mother of two in the eye . Her husband found her lifeless body moments later . The shooter had been drinking the night before and turned himself in to police the next morning when he heard the news . He was charged with second - degree manslaughter and weapons - related crimes, and was later found guilty and sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison . </Li> <Li> June 14, 1999: Arizona, A 14 - year - old girl, Shannon Smith, was struck on the top of her head by a bullet and killed while in the backyard of her home . This incident resulted in Arizona enacting "Shannon's Law" in 2000, that made the discharge of a firearm into the air illegal . </Li> <Li> December 31, 1994: Amy Silberman, a tourist from Boston, was killed by a falling bullet from celebratory firing while walking on the Riverwalk in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana . The Police Department there has been striving to educate the public on the danger since then, frequently making arrests for firing into the air . </Li> <Li> July 4, 1950: Bernard Doyle was killed in his seat while attending a New York Giants game at the Polo Grounds . The bullet was determined to have been fired by Robert Peebles, a juvenile, from an apartment building some distance away on Coogan's Bluff, presumably in celebration of Independence Day . </Li> </Ul> <Li> July 1, 2017: A 13 - year - old boy, Noah Inman, was struck in his head and killed while playing basketball in the street . </Li>

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