[AnAmericanMother]

This is a SERIOUS problem in certain parts of the Atlanta area - celebratory gunfire for the New Year, with the celebrants either shooting in the air without caring where it comes down, or actually shooting through walls or cars.

Last year somebody sued the landlord of an apartment complex for failure to maintain safe premises -- because she was struck by a stray bullet fired by an unknown person during New Year's revels.

It must have been a fairly large rifle bullet to penetrate the roof of a church building and still retain enough velocity to kill this poor little kid.

[Charles Martel]

It must have been a fairly large rifle bullet to penetrate the roof of a church building and still retain enough velocity to kill this poor little kid.

7.62x39 FMJ would be my bet, combined with a flimsy church roof. No way a handgun projectile would do that.

[chris_bdba]

Not just there it happens a lot here too. We are in SE Ohio and last night at midnight I heard them going off all over. I just said to Dh ;ast night that it would be awful to be sitting in your livingroom and be killed by a stray bullet.