Texas nurse killed by celebratory gunfire minutes after new yearhttps://t.co/MKU1LCg68S

— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 1, 2020

A Texas woman was killed by a stray bullet* while celebrating New Year’s Eve with her family.

Sheriff’s deputies said Philippa Ashford was struck by celebratory gunfire just minutes after midnight at the end of her driveway in a Harris County subdivision, reported KTRK-TV.

*Translation from anodyne journalist-speak: some asshole operating under our NRA-purchased political protection heedlessly, deliberately, with no regard for life, fired a deadly weapon with no care for who it might affect.