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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 Year's Eve. They're hoping it won't happen again.