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Each year, all over the country, police try to warn people against firing their guns into the air on New Year’s Eve. The family of a toddler hit by stray bullet in the Portland neighborhood hopes his near-death experience will prove to people that celebratory gunfire is extremely dangerous. "Right there in his left shoulder there was the hole," said Dustin Compton, victim’s father. Once the stitches are out and the wound has healed, 2-year-old Cameron Eli Compton may eventually forget what happened to him on New Year’s Eve. "I heard the pop on his jacket," said Jaime St. Clair, Cameron's mother."My heart stopped, I knew what that sound was, I hoped that it wasn't. "She said ,"I think he just got shot, 'and I am like, Get him in the house,'" said Compton."Me, somebody hit me. It came that way," Cameron said. Compton works for a heating and air conditioning company and had just finished a service call at his friend's home in the Portland neighborhood before the incident occurred. Being that is was a holiday and their children are the same age, Compton had brought his family along. Dozens of gunshots could be heard echoing through the neighborhood as the night grew closer to the new year. Finally the gunshots stopped, so they decided to leave. "She is just picking him up and going to turn him to put him in his car seat and bam," Compton said while describing the incident. "When I heard that sound, I knew it was a bullet going through his jacket." They rushed him inside and saw the hole in his chest. "It went right through the corner of his shoulder in between, by his armpit and it went down two inches, stuck in the soft tissue, outside of his rib cage," said St. Clair. Just a few inches over and he may not have survived. "What goes up has to come down, there are other ways to celebrate, while you are drunk having a good time, letting your gun off. I almost lost my child. I am lucky. I get mine tomorrow. There are 100 people every year that don't get to say that," said Compton.