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Jul 3, 2009 7:23 pm US/Eastern
Officials Warn Against Firing Celebratory Shots
Gio Benitez
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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Rev. Jerome Starling, a community activist, lost his niece to a fatal stray bullet when she was five years old.
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What goes up, must come down.
That was the message Friday in North Miami. Officials gathered there to call for safety on the 4th. They demanded that gunshots not be fired into the sky tomorrow night.
"Nobody would think that would happen, nobody. It's not right," said Greer Sheard. Her daughter was injured by a stray bullet in July 2005.
For one community activist, the idea of a stray bullet on the 4th of July is far too real.
"Bullets have no eyes, bullets have no mind, bullets have no hearts," said Rev. Jerome Starling, a community activist who lost his niece to a fatal stray bullet when she was five years old.
"Just don't shoot! Just don't fire!" pleaded Starling, surrounded by community leaders and local law enforcement officials.
"Shooting guns in the air for celebratory fire is a crime, and it's time that we stop it," said Miami-Dade Commissioner Audrey Edmonson.
It was a plea at a press conference scheduled for Friday -- a week after Rev. Starling had suffered a stroke.
"My heart is in this, and even though I had a stroke, I've got to still let the community know that I want the community to stand together. I don't want them to fall down by senseless gun violence, so I still put my life on the line to beg people to do what's right, " Starling told CBS4's
Gio Benitez.
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