PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Police are warning people about a problem they see every New Year’s Eve: People firing their guns into the air as part of the celebration.
“In our neighborhood, there was random gunfire and bullets richocheted off my mom’s car,” said Dot Roberts of Mesa. “For years we had bullet marks on our car, which is really scary.”
In 1999, 14-year-old Shannon Smith was in the backyard of her Phoenix home when she was struck and killed by a bullet that had been shot into the air…