A family of Flower of MaroñasMontevideo, was reborn after a stray bullet entered their home through a window and hit centimeters from them.
It happened at 11:45 p.m. on Wednesday, in an apartment on the second floor of a building located near Parque Guaraní, reported Uruguayan media such as Underlined y Telenight.
Roberto, the father of the family, told Underlined that at that moment he, his partner and his daughter were drinking mate in the living room while watching television. They heard a noise and when they looked in the direction of the window they discovered a huge hole.
On the imaginary route they reached the thermos, then the surprise was capital: The object was dented and under the table, near the object, was the bullet helmet.
Where did the bullet come from? According to the police, the projectile came “from afar”. Roberto assured that the neighborhood is a quiet place where gunshots are not usually heard.
«I felt the glass explode and I called 911, I didn’t know what had happened. They came and found that it was a bullet that had gone through the glass and then hit a thermos that I had,» Roberto said, adding: «I had been sitting there a little while ago, I was saved, I was lucky. «I was born again, even the cats here were scared because it was a boom.»
In dialogue with TelenightRoberto explained that, even though he «always» stays at the computer, that night he decided to change seats «and watch TV, because of those coincidences.» «One freezes»he sentenced.
Another lost bullet in a week in Montevideo
On Monday of the same week it was announced that a five-year-old girl was in serious condition after suffering a stray bullet wound when she was caught in the middle of a shootout on the outskirts of the capital.
As reported by the capital’s Police Headquarters in a statement to which it had access The Observerthe incident occurred at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday on Route 102 and Camino Mendoza.
The girl was caught in the middle of an attack carried out by three men riding a motorcycle. He was hit in his left leg.with an entry and exit hole, which meant that it was assisted immediately.
