Emilyn Villanueva Calano, the teenager hit by a stray bullet while watching a fireworks display on New Year’s Eve, died Wednesday night.

GONE Emilyn’s mother comforts her crying child during the wake held for the teenager felled by a bullet on New Year’s Eve. PHOTO BY MIKE DE JUAN
GONE Emilyn’s mother comforts her crying child during the wake held for the teenager felled by a bullet on New Year’s Eve. PHOTO BY MIKE DE JUAN

Calano never woke up from her coma and was pronounced dead at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Her body was autopsied because officials wanted to find out the trajectory of the bullet that lodged in her brain.

Emilyn was standing a few meters away from her house in Malabon City when she was hit.

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However, the Malabon Police claimed that the teenager was a victim of indiscriminate firing, an angle that was rejected by her family and the Department of Health.