A man died in a horrifying incident on New Year's Day.
A man from Florida was left grieving his lover after he was seemingly hit by a stray bullet fired during a New Year's celebration.
Angel Nunes, 50, and his boyfriend Chris Dillion, 68, were standing outside of Dillion's home on the 700 block of Northeast 17th Court in Fort Lauderdale when Nunes was hit.
The 50-year-old had allegedly been out celebrating the occasion with his friends before calling Dillion up and asking whether he was home for a surprise visit.
"At 11:58, he surprises me," Dillon recalled, per the Daily Mail. "He goes: 'You home?' He comes around the corner and has this big grin on his face.
His lover greeted him and said: "'I didn’t want you to spend New Year’s alone so I raced over here.'"
The pair then left Dillion's home and headed outside to the pool deck area behind the house to share a kiss.
"I grabbed the back of his head, and he grabbed the back of my head and forcefully had the most beautiful kiss, it was so beautiful, backed off, I said: 'I love you,' [and] he said: 'I love you,' and then he fell," Dillon stated.
At the time, the 68-year-old did not think his boyfriend had passed away and tried his best to pick him up, but Nunes was completely unresponsive.
Dillion quickly called 911 and tried to tend to Nunes’ wound with the help of an emergency dispatcher over the phone, though it was no use.
The 50-year-old succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.
"I cried, I started sobbing on the floor," Dillon said after hearing the confirmation that his lover was dead. "It’s heartbreaking."
It was discovered that Nunes had a "less than a half an inch" slit on his stomach area where he was hit with a stray bullet.
Recalling what he saw, Dillion said he saw something like a "tiny flash" hit his partner.
'It came from through those trees,' Dillon told the South Florida Sun Sentinel while pointing to an area between his house and the Middle River containing palm trees.
"It just bee-lined through there. That’s where the police said it looked like it came from," he added.
Dillion believed that this bullet may have just been someone shooting into the air with their gun to celebrate the start of 2025, but it had fatal consequences.
"You shoot up in the air for fun, [but] you can't do that in a city," he explained, emphasizing the dangers of it.
The authorities are still investigating the incident to uncover further details about where the bullet had come from if it was a bullet, and potentially who had fired it.
Our thoughts are with Nunes' loved ones at this difficult time.