KC area police remind everyone to ring in new year without celebratory gunfire

PCELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR SAFELY.PMATT: THIS HAS BECOME AN ANNUALWARNING, NO MATTER WHAT YEAR.

CELEBRATORY GUNFIRE.DO NOT SHOOT INTO THE SKYRANDOMLY.IT IS DANGEROUS, ILLEGAL, ANDSTUPID.I WANT TO SHOW YOU PICTURES FROMNEW YEAR’S EVE PAST.THIS IS NEW YEAR’S EVE 2018,THAT IS THREE UNDER 60 ROUNDSFOUND AT A HOME ON KANSAS CITY’SEAST SIDE, FIRED FROM AT LEAST 9DIFFERENT GUNS ON NEW YEARS EVE2018.LAST YEAR, TAKE A LOOK AT THISPICTURE.THIS IS FROM A HOME NEAR 51STAND OSAGE.A BULLET, LIKELY FROMCELEBRATORY GUNFIRE, ENTEREDTHIS HOME RIGHT NEXT TO THEHEADBOARD OF THIS BED WHILEPEOPLE WERE SLEEPING.IN ALL, 5 HOMES WERE STRUCK BYGUNFIRE LAST YEAR.POLICE RECIEVED MORE THAN 300911 CALLS REPORTING GUNFIRE.LUCKILY, NOBODY WAS STRUCK BYGUNFIRE THE LAST TWO YEARS, BU10 YEARS AGO, AN 11-YEAR-OLDGIRL WAS STRUCK AND KILLED BYCELEBRATORY GUNFIRE ON THE 4OF JULY, 2011 POLICE AND THEMAYOR’S OFFICE WILL AGAIN ISSUE-- RENEWING THOS PLEAS TO NOTSHOOT YOUR GUNS IN THE SKY