HOUSTON – As New Year’s Eve approaches, authorities are once again warning Houstonians about the deadly consequences of celebratory gunfire, a danger that turned fatal five years ago in one quiet neighborhood.
On New Year’s Eve 2019, a stray bullet fell from the sky and struck 61-year-old Philippa Ashford at her home on May Laurel Drive in Houston’s Laurel Oaks subdivision. She died after being hit in the neck.
One neighbor, Louis, who did not want to appear on camera, remembered Ashford as kind and reserved…