Ashston Place in downtown Durham is a 51-unit apartment building for seniors 55 and older. (Photo: Greg Childress/NC Newsline)
It’s been almost a year since Debra Davies’s son, Jason Lamonté Pulliam, died in an incident in her apartment building in downtown Durham.
Pulliam, 39, died Nov. 25, 2024, three days before Thanksgiving, in the Ashton Place laundry room after emergency responders arrived “too late” to revive him.
Pulliam, who was visiting his mother, suffered heart failure after he and a tenant became trapped in the laundry room. The electronic door malfunctioned, and neither had a cellphone with them to call for help…