SOUTH TEXAS LEGISLATOR STRUCK BY STRAY NEW YEAR’S EVE BULLET
A south Texas lawmaker is lucky to be alive after he was struck in the head by an apparently stray bullet during a New Year's celebration early Sunday.
State Rep. Armando Martinez of Weslaco, said he was celebrating outside with friends and family just minutes after midnight, when—in his words, "it felt like a sledgehammer hit me over the head."
A bullet fragment had just punctured the top of the legislator's head.
The 40-year old Martinez was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, where surgeons removed the bullet fragment. The fragment had penetrated his skull and lodged itself into the top layer of his brain.
The fragment appears to be from a .223 caliber round.
Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said Martinez's survival was nothing short of a miracle.
The investigation into the shooting continues.
Martinez was elected to a seventh term in November and scheduled to take the oath of office January 10th.
Very sad, the bullet probably came from over the border from Mexico, they routinely shoot across the border, but might have been have been from some moron that shot up into the sky.
Mexico is not next to Weslaco, probably from an idiot in the area
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is not next to Weslaco, probably from an idoit in the area