Shots fired. Greivis Vasquez's mother is alright.

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Stray bullets fired during an apparent gun battle at a penal institution west of Caracas, Venezuela struck an apartment across the street and missed the mother of New Orleans Hornets guard Greivis Vasquez.

Venezuelan national Vasquez confirmed on his Twitter account that his mother, Ivis Rodriguez, was not injured during the incident, in which at least one person in his mother's apartment complex was killed by the bullets and three others were injured.

"Thank God my family is fine! It was a big scare but I already spoke to my mother and she's fine!" read the post on Vasquez's Twitter account.

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