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DENVER—Police in Denver are warning people not to fire guns to celebrate the New Year.
Police say people are injured or killed by careless gun fire every year across the country on New Year’s Eve.
Early on New Year’s Day in Denver two years ago, 11-year-old Angelica Martinez of Denver and her 47-year-old aunt, Rebecca Yanez of Fort Collins, were killed when a single bullet tore through a wall and struck them.
The shooter, Pedro Cortez, said he was aiming at a streetlight.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter and was sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this year.
