7-year-old girl hit by stray bullet dies | Inquirer News

7-year-old girl hit by stray bullet dies

/ 02:57 PM January 02, 2013

Stray bullet victim Stephanie Nicole Ella (rigthmost) poses for a photo with other children on New Year’s Eve. Complimentary photo

MANILA, Philippines—Stephanie Nicole Ella, the seven-year-old child  who was hit by a stray bullet while watching fireworks outside her Caloocan City home, has died, officials said Wednesday.

Case investigator Police Officer 3 Jerry Gamueda said he went to the East Avenue Medical Center after Ella’s uncle, Marvin, texted him to say that the girl had died.

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Dr. Emmanuel Bueno, director of the East Avenue Medical Center, pronounced Nicole dead at around 2:26 p.m. after suffering a series of cardiac arrests since 5 a.m. on Wednesday.

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Ella, a grade one pupil of the Tala Elementary School, had been in a deep coma since New Year’s Day after the bullet lodged itself in her head.  She had been undergoing treatment at the East Avenue Medical Center since then.

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Bueno earlier said that Ella had eight cardiac arrests on Wednesday.

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She was just watching a fireworks display with his father, Jay, near their home in Caloocan on New Year’s Eve when she suddenly collapsed due to a gunshot wound in her head.

Ella was among the nine people reportedly hit by stray bullets during the New Year ’s Eve revelry. Another child, four-year-old Ranjilo Nemer of Mandaluyong City, died from four gunshot wounds to his head and body.  Jeannette I. Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer

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