Amethyst Silva News Today

Amethyst Silva was celebrating the New Year with her family outside the Allure Apartment Complex off Middlecoff Road. As midnight arrived, the peak of the excitement, she was hit with a gun shot.

Celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve 2023 took the life of 11-year-old Amethyst Silva.

Amethyst Silva died from celebratory gun fire on New Year's Day 2023. That day has been stuck in her parents mind like it happened yesterday. They're still figuring out how to live with this.

Amethyst's parents, Robert Silva and Melinda Cruz, said that she loved getting her pink drink from Starbucks, watching the Netflix series "Stranger Things."

Their daughter was killed due to unsafe gun handling practices last New Years Eve. Theyre hoping it wont happen again.

Pete Trevino, a Corpus Christi resident who gives back to the community without expecting anything in return is this month's KRIS 6 Angel.

The Nueces County DA eyes upgrading charges against Deonis Poindexter and Jacob Leal in the death of 11-year-old Amethyst Silva as another holiday approaches.

In a media conference, the parents of Amethyst Silva, the young girl killed on New Year's Eve, announce they retained council to look into events of that night.

A press conference relating to the Amethyst Silva case will be held on Jan. 27 at 1:30 p.m. at the Celis Law Group offices.

The Silva family, whose 11-year old daughter Amethyst was killed by random gunfire during New year's celebrations, has hired attorney Mauricio Celis.