Boy, 2, killed by stray bullet
17/04/2006 - 08:29:50A two-year-old boy out for an Easter ride with his family was shot and killed when a stray bullet pierced their minivan.
The boy was struck at about 2pm local time when two groups of men began arguing in a Bronx neighbourhood of New York and one of the men pulled out a gun and started shooting.
A bullet tore through the sliding door of the family’s vehicle, striking David Pacheco Jr in the chest.
Witnesses said the boy was sitting in the back of the minivan with several other children, who were unharmed.
A man at the scene tried to revive the boy before a passing cab driver drove him to a hospital.
The boy was pronounced dead about 45 minutes later.
His mother, Joanne Sanabria, 28, described hearing her son scream, then seeing the bullet hole in the car and the blood on his body.
“The bullet should have hit me,” she said.
The gunman was not caught.
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