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Bloomberg Meets Stray Bullet Shooting Victim Vada Vasquez
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 1, 2010
Modified Jan 1, 2010
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Mayor Bloomberg invited Vada Vasquez, who was shot in the head by a stray bullet in November and made a miraculous recovery, to his annual interfaith breakfast where he asked religious leaders to fight the spread of illegal guns. The Daily News reports that the Mayor implored, "We still have more to do. There is some other young person out there - or older person - who's sitting there just minding their own business, who could be the next Vada Vasquez, or worse. And we don't want that to happen."
Bloomberg spoke to Vasquez, calling her a role model and adding, "Sorry this happened to you. Glad you're going to be all right. Things happen, and you can't let it end your life. You've got to go on."
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There have been many stray bullet shooting victims: A Little Leaguer miraculously survived being hit in the head by a stray bullet (he was struck before a game); a Bronx mom was fatally caught in the crossfire while heading to a laundermat; a Bronx grandmother died after a bullet entered her living room; and a Harlem grandmother, carrying groceries to a sick friend, was hit (she survived).
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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