ORLANDO, Fla. -- Authorities continued to search Tuesday for the person who fired a bullet into the air during a New Year's celebration that landed in a woman face and became lodged behind her eye.

Investigators said Ruby Cintron was standing on the north shoreline of Crooked Lake in the Highlands Lake subdivision off Hiawassee Road after midnight Sunday when she was hit near the eye by the .45-caliber bullet.

Cintron was holding her 7-month-old baby when she was hit, her husband, Domingo said.

"She put the baby down and my brother and I took her to the house," Cintron said. "She was saying the whole time, "Take care of the kids.'"

Detectives said the bullet came from someone who fired into the sky to ring in the New Year from a nearby location.

Cintron was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center, but doctors were unable to remove the bullet from her head, Local 6 News learned.

Cintron will need an artificial eye because of the damage caused by the bullet, according to the report.

"She does not know what is ahead of her right now," Cintron said.

Neighbors heard several gun shots fired in the area after midnight.

"A lot of loudness and a lot of shooting, repeatedly, like semi automatics," neighbor Ray Beecham said.

Last New Year's Eve, a stray bullet fired more than 2,200 yards away struck and killed a 75-year-old man.

Police hope the person who fired the shot will turn themselves in to authorities.

If you have any information concerning this shooting, you are urged to call Crimeline at (800) 423-TIPS.

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