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Richmond rang in the new year in a familiar fashion: with celebratory gunfire.

At 11:50 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, a 22-year-old woman was walking with a friend to a 7-Eleven, in the 2500 block of Harwood Street off Jefferson Davis Highway in South Richmond, when she heard gunfire.

Shortly afterward, she felt a numbness in her leg and realized she had been shot.

She had to flag down a driver, who drove her to VCU Medical Center. The woman, whose identity was not released, was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening.

Richmond police have no suspects in the shooting and have made no arrests, but neighbors believe it was caused by celebratory gunfire.

“We call it celebrating New Year’s the wrong way,” said Alfonzia Filmore, who lives in the neighborhood. He was working on New Year’s Eve but said his wife called to tell him she had heard lots of gunfire.

Shots were heard across Richmond late Monday and early Tuesday.

From midnight to 1 a.m., Richmond police received 147 reports of random gunfire. Last year, the city’s Department of Emergency Communications reported 82 such calls in the same period.