A New Year's Eve celebration ended with a bullet fired into a family's south Louisville home, narrowly missing a 9-year-old child.Chelsi Johnson said that, just minutes after midnight, a stray bullet entered the side of her home on Walter Avenue, near Taylor Boulevard.She had heard people shooting off guns—celebrating, she believes—only moments before. That's when she told her daughter, whom she had allowed to stay up late to watch the ball drop, to move away from the door. A short time later, the little girl, who was sitting on the couch with her puppy, was covered in drywall and shouting she had been shot."Please don't let her be hurt. Please don't let her be bleeding. That was what was going through my mind. I wanted to make sure she was okay, because she thought she had been shot or hit by something," Johnson said. "It was the most terrifying thing I've ever lived through."Incredibly, the fourth-grader had been spared by mere inches and Johnson is counting her blessings.But she has a message for the shooter and anyone else who celebrates New Year's Eve the same way. "Just please re-evaluate how important that is for you to do because you could literally murder someone trying to have a good time."The Louisville Metro Police Department has been made aware of the incident.

A New Year's Eve celebration ended with a bullet fired into a family's south Louisville home, narrowly missing a 9-year-old child.



Chelsi Johnson said that, just minutes after midnight, a stray bullet entered the side of her home on Walter Avenue, near Taylor Boulevard.


She had heard people shooting off guns—celebrating, she believes—only moments before.

That's when she told her daughter, whom she had allowed to stay up late to watch the ball drop, to move away from the door.

A short time later, the little girl, who was sitting on the couch with her puppy, was covered in drywall and shouting she had been shot.

"Please don't let her be hurt. Please don't let her be bleeding. That was what was going through my mind. I wanted to make sure she was okay, because she thought she had been shot or hit by something," Johnson said. "It was the most terrifying thing I've ever lived through."

Incredibly, the fourth-grader had been spared by mere inches and Johnson is counting her blessings.

But she has a message for the shooter and anyone else who celebrates New Year's Eve the same way. "Just please re-evaluate how important that is for you to do because you could literally murder someone trying to have a good time."

The Louisville Metro Police Department has been made aware of the incident.