Woman Shot By Stray Bullet

[Freedom Froggy]

Bullet Falls From Sky Into Woman's Face

POSTED: 10:11 pm EST January 1, 2006
UPDATED: 11:14 pm EST January 2, 2006

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A 26-year-old woman watching New Year's Eve fireworks in Orlando was seriously injured when she was struck in the face by a stray bullet fired into the air during the celebration, according to a Local 6 News report.

Investigators said Ruby Cintron was standing on the north shoreline of Crooked Lake in the Highlands Lake subdivision off Hiawassee Road after midnight Sunday when she was hit near the eye by the .45-caliber bullet.

Cintron was holding her 7-month-old baby when she was hit, her husband, Domingo said.

"She put the baby down and my brother and I took her to the house," Cintron said. "She was saying the whole time, "Take care of the kids.'"

Detectives said the bullet came from someone who fired into the sky to ring in the New Year from a nearby location.

Cintron was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center but doctors were unable to remove the bullet from her head, Local 6 News learned.

Cintron will need an artificial eye because of the damage caused by the bullet, according to the report.

"She does not know what is ahead of her right now," Cintron said.

Neighbors heard several gun shots fired in the area after midnight.

"A lot of loudness and a lot of shooting, repeatedly, like semi automatics," neighbor Ray Beecham said.

Last New Year's Eve, a stray bullet fired more than 2,200 yards away struck and killed a 75-year-old man.

Police hope the person who fired the shot will turn themselves into authorities.

If you have any information concerning this shooting, you are urged to call Crimeline at (800) 423-TIPS.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.


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[Jeremy]

Damn that sucks.

 

[Flipmo]

Too bad. That's just like that girl in Toronto who got hit too.

She's a very pretty woman. Nice smile.

 

[KAMIKAZI]

I would be pissed as hell if that happened to me or anyone I care about.

 

[critikaldesignz]

omg......

 

[Freedom Froggy]

its like a 1 in a million chance of gettin hit but u would hate to be that 1 lmao

 

[SiGh]

wasnt me. stop flooding me with IMz!

nah but for real dat sucks.. shes madd pretty.

 

[MATW95]

That sucks, hope she's alright after all this

 

[AmerikazMost]

dude who shot the gun: "you mean those bullets come back down?"

 

[Freedom Froggy]

lol... they come back down @ the same velocity they went up i think... but i think they lose power... does that make sence?

 

[AmerikazMost]

edit: i was wrong

 

[critikaldesignz]

edit

 

[AmerikazMost]

If something goes up to the sky and comes back down, it has to come back down again at its highest point at 0 m/s.

Lets say the bullet stopped at the height of 30 km (no air resistance):

Vf: Final velocity of bullet
Vi: Velocity of bullet at rest in the middle of the sky
A: acceleration of gravity
D: distance

Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2 x A x D
Vf^2 = 0 + 2 x 9.81 m/s^2 x 30 km
Vf^2 = 588.6 m/s
Vf = 24.26 m/s


At 40 km

Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2 x A x D
Vf^2 = 0 + 2 x 9.81 m/s^2 x 40 km
Vf^2 = 784.8 m/s
Vf = 28.01 m/s


At 50 km

Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2 x A x D
Vf^2 = 0 + 2 x 9.81 m/s^2 x 50 km
Vf^2 = 981.0 m/s
Vf = 31.32 m/s


So the bullet, with air resistance, should be going even slower than the velocities above. A bullet from a standard AK-47 is fired at a velocity of 710 m/s, far greater than a falling stray bullet. She's lucky it WAS a stray bullet, a point blank shot from an AK-47 goes through the head and most of the time you die.

haha you looked that formula up right? i was trying to remember it from physics two years ago

but yeah, i was wrong before

the initial velocity on the way up:
0^2 = (710 m/s)^2 + 2 * -9.81 m/s^s * d

equals the final velocity on the way down:

Vf^2 = (0 m/s)^2 + 2 * 9.81 m/s^2 * d


d = 25,693.17023 m



or you couuld just set both equal to d and you get:
[-(710 m/s)^2] / (2 * -9.81 m/s^2) = (Vf^2) / (2 * 9.81 m/s^2)

the denominators cancel each other out to -1, so 710^2 = Vf^2













Edit: oh, and critikal, your calculations are wrong because you used two different distance measurements. you forget to convert kilometers to meters

 

[critikaldesignz]

i take physics as well

Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2 x A x D
Vf^2 = 0 + 2 x 9.81 m/s^2 x 25693.17023 m
Vf^2 = 504099.9999 m/s
Vf = 709.9999999 m/s

edit: there rofl i always forget to convert

 

[AmerikazMost]

i take physics as well

Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2 x A x D
Vf^2 = 0 + 2 x 9.81 m/s^2 x 25.69317023 km
Vf^2 = 504.0999999 m/s
Vf = 22.45217138 m/s

25,693.17023 meters, not kilometers.. check the edit on my last post.. you can't use kilometers and meters in the same calculation

 

[bigmack]

just fuckin write a sentence with your conlusion instead of these gay ass formulas,my visions too blurry to read that shit.thanks

 

[LilShOrtiE485]

Wow................!!!!

 

[AmerikazMost]

edit: there rofl i always forget to convert

lol i didn't see what was wrong at first, and i thought i made the mistake.. i thought "damn it, i didn't type all that shit just to have to edit it away again" haha

 

[PuffnScruff]

what? ya'll didn't know it rained bullets down here in the o.c.? i'm always walking to school looking up in the sky trying to spot bullets to dodge.

 

[DPG iz all I C]

Thers a CSI episode like this