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Metro Detroit community leaders urge residents to put away guns on New Year’s Eve
Celebratory gunfire is illegal, dangerous
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METRO DETROIT – Reverend Nicholas Hood, III, along with former Detroit Police Chief Ike McKinnon and other local leaders are urging residents to not bring in the New Year with celebratory gunfire.
Each year, Hood has held a press conference alongside community leaders to encourage Michiganders to “Ring in the New Year with a Bell, Not a Bang,” but due to the COVID pandemic, a public service announcement has been recorded instead.
The campaign was started in 1997 after Sandra Latham, a Detroit grandmother, was killed by celebratory gunfire sitting in her dinning room. For the 23rd year, Hood is asking residents to put away their guns and find a safer way to bring in the new year.