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29 March 2024

God told me leave before bullet came: 8-year-old

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An 8-year-old New Mexico, USA, girl says God told her to go to the bathroom just seconds before a stray bullet flew through her bedroom wall.

KRQE-TV reports that the bullet struck the girl’s room Sunday afternoon around the same time Santa Fe police were working a call of gunshots being fired four blocks away.

A man later told police that he shot himself in the foot but investigators aren’t sure about his story. Santa Fe Police Department spokeswoman Celina Westervelt says police also aren’t sure if the two events are connected.

The girl’s mother, Wendolin Hernandez, says her daughter says God knew this was going to happen and “he made me go to the restroom.”

She says police may have to cut through her daughter’s wall to remove the bullet.

Man with rattlesnakes in his backpack: dead

Authorities are awaiting results of an autopsy report on the death of a man found with a backpack containing two state-protected rattlesnakes.

The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office says 57-year-old Daniel Genaro’s body was found in rugged terrain near Parker Canyon Lake.

The Sierra Vista Herald reports that the two ridgenosed rattlesnakes in the backpack were dead when Genaro’s body was found Saturday. The snake is the state reptile of Arizona.

Sheriff’s spokeswoman Carol Capas says the office will wait for autopsy results before determining whether further investigation is needed.

Capas says Genaro’s family had reported him missing Friday and that he had a history of medical issues.

Arizona Game and Fish Department spokesman Mark Hart says trade in the snakes is illegal but that there is some poaching.

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