Morbid
1:27 pm on January 2nd, 2008
Yanez was hit in front of her daughter, 14-year-old Jeanette Yanez, a ninth-grader at Lesher Junior High.
“Everyone fled to a safer room, and Jeanette realized her mother wasn’t there. She went back and realized pretty quickly that her mother had passed,” said Lynne, who was not present at the time.
Lynn said Jeanette and her mother lived together in an apartment.
“It’s just been the two of them for a number of years. She’s worried about who’s she going to stay with. She’s not sure about her future,” Lynn said. “She’s been pretty strong for a 14-year-old girl.”
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080102/UPDATES01/80102009
Rosie
1:35 pm on January 2nd, 2008
Now this is one of those FREAK incidents that you hear about but think will never happen. Once again, I hate fucking guns!!!
WryBread
3:57 pm on January 2nd, 2008
Dumb macho assholes who have to fire their guns at New Year’s. Every year in Los Angeles people would get killed by these nuts and their celebratory gunfire. But did that stop them! No, can’t give up a tradition like that! They didn’t seem to care that even if they fired into the air, the bullet came down somewhere and sometimes killed someone.
black heart
3:45 am on January 3rd, 2008
Makes me so happy to be australian when I read of all these gun related deaths.
Our gun laws are very strict and we have nowhere near the amount of shooting deaths other countries do.
When Martin Bryant went on a mass murder spree in Tasmania a number of years ago they changed the gun laws. Thank God.
Can’t see America ever going that far though.
Unamused
10:07 am on January 3rd, 2008
I don’t know why those damn fools can’t shoot into the ground if they feel they must shoot at all. >.<
tabularasa9
11:42 am on January 3rd, 2008
There is no such thing as “accidents”; freak or not.
nettie
7:36 pm on March 30th, 2009
thank you all so much for your support doing that very hard and challenging time. My family and i are doing better and learning how to except a future without my mom but its difficult. Courts coming up in June and i hope to recieve your support once again. my mom deserves all she can get out of this case. He will get the best and deserves every year he gets put away for. Its hard to believe stuff like this happens but it does i agree with you all there is not such thing as an accident when two people had to leave this earth.
thanks again
Jeanette Yanez
MadeaBecBec
12:58 pm on October 27th, 2009
On August 21, 2009 Pedro Cortez was sentenced to 20 years!
Denver District Judge Sheila Rappaport sentenced Cortez to 20 years in state prison — 10 years for each count of reckless manslaughter, to be served consecutively.
The daughter, Jeanette Yanez, is having a hard time, she is in my prayers,still…
Source

Think you got something worth saying? Type it out. If you don't wanna look lame, get rid of that default avatar and go get you a gravatar! Tell 'em Morbid sent ya'. Lastly, as far as we are concerned, posting a comment means that you have read our Disclaimer.

You must be logged in to post a comment.