Woman Struck By Bullet at Busch Gardens New Year's Party

A 20-year-old Seminole woman’s New Year’s Eve celebration came to a painful end when she was struck in the leg by a bullet during Busch Garden’s annual party.

According to the Tampa Police Department, the woman was sitting in the park’s Gwazi Pavilion area just before midnight when she felt a pain in her lower left leg. Busch Gardens medical services staff members were called in and had the woman transported to St. Joseph’s Hospital.

An X-ray taken at the hospital showed a bullet lodged in the woman’s leg.

“It appears that someone had fired in to the air and the bullet inadvertently struck the victim,” an email from the police department stated.

Police have identified the victim as Kaitlyn Jacobs.

The identity of the shooter remains unknown.

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