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| Savannah Ramirez, right, shot her brother Manuel, left, accidentally in the head on New Year’s Eve when posing for a picture with a gun for facebook |
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19-year-old woman(Savannah Ramirez) accidentally shot dead her brother while posing with
a gun for Facebook photos on
New Year’s Eve.
Manuel Ortiz died instantly after being shot
in the head at about 6am on Monday
morning.
Family and friends wept as his body was carried from
his apartment in Phoenix, Arizona, where
the shooting took
place.
Police said 22-year-old Ortiz and his sister Savannah Ramirez arrived back at the
home they shared on New Year’s Eve after spending the night drinking.
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| Scene: Police said 22-year-old Ortiz and his sister, who has not been named, arrived back at the home they shared on New Year¿s Eve after spending the night drinking |
They were with two other people when someone in the
group pulled out the handgun to take photos
with it.
As the 19-year-old posed and played around with the
weapon it went off striking Ortiz in the head,
according to ABC15.
He was pronounced dead at the
scene.
It is not known if the group knew the handgun was
loaded.
Police say she has been questioned and released pending
further investigation in the case.
Phoenix
Police Sgt Steve Martos said the victim’s sister would likely be charged
with manslaughter if tests conclude she had
alcohol in her system.
‘Every New Year’s Eve,
this particular sister is going to be thinking about this for the rest of her life on how…drinking overnight,
playing with a gun and now shoots and kills her brother,’ said
Phoenix Police Sgt Steve
Martos.
Friends said the shooting was
a terrible accident.
One friend who wanted to remain anonymous said she
wanted to remember Ortiz as a ‘kind, funny guy he was’.
‘He was a very close friend to everybody. He was just
always there and it’s sad because one second he’s here and the other he’s
not.’
‘Every time he saw somebody sad or down he would be
right there making jokes so you could be happy. Even if he was just having a
hard time he was always there for someone,’ said the
friend.
Authorities are looking into who owns the
gun.
On both Manuel and his sister’s Facebook pages
there are numerous shots of them posing with guns and making gang
symbols.
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