5-year-old fatally shot at Alabama New Year's party was from Huntsville
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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Jan 06 2017 8:43 AM
The young girl who was killed in what investigators believe to be an accidental shooting at a New Year's party in Limestone County has been identified as a Huntsville resident.
Regina Hernandez, 5, died after sustaining a gunshot wound to the chest Jan. 1 in Athens, according to court records released this week. Hernandez was north Alabama's first homicide victim of 2017.
Fidel Rodriguez Canchola, 34, of Athens, remains jailed on a charge of criminally negligent homicide, which is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail. Bail is set at $5,000.
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