FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Police are investigating after a New 12 months’s tragedy in Fort Lauderdale.
A person was struck and killed by a stray bullet whereas hugging his associate at midnight.
With simply two minutes to spare earlier than the beginning of 2025, Angel Nunes made a shock go to to Chris Dillon’s residence.
“He says, ‘I didn’t need you to spend New 12 months’s Eve by your self,” Dillon mentioned. “And if I didn’t love him earlier than, I actually beloved him after that assertion.”
However as fireworks exploded within the background, that heartfelt second between the couple changed into tragedy in a cut up second as the 2 embraced whereas standing on the again patio.
“I let go and I mentioned I really like you and he mentioned I really like you,” Dillon mentioned. “He’s standing right here and unexpectedly he went like this, and I noticed out the nook of my eye, a flash, like a tiny flash, after which he fell.”
Dillon known as 911 and by 12:02 a.m. New 12 months’s Day, police and paramedics had been racing to the Fort Lauderdale residence on Northeast seventeenth Court docket and seventh Aenue.
However Nunez didn’t survive the gunshot wound from the stray bullet that Dillon believes got here from throughout the Center River, on the Wilton Manors facet.
“Determine the chances of the place he was standing,” mentioned Dillon. “The bullet really got here down from this path.”
Now the enjoyable loving 50-year-old father of two from a earlier relationship is being remembered as a hard-working and type spirit, a person silenced by somebody being negligent with a gun proper in the beginning of the New 12 months.
“You shoot up within the air for enjoyable, you possibly can’t do it in a metropolis,” mentioned Dillon. “My God you killed any individual.”
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