Josh Freedom du Lac

The celebratory bullets began flying right around midnight, in the final moments of 2022. The child’s father heard two dings – Happy New Year bullets ricocheting in front of their apartment. “Ouch,” he heard his 11-year-old say. Then, she was gone. “Right at midnight, Amethyst was probably the first child to go in 2023,” he said of his “Stranger Things”-obsessed, animal-loving Texas tween who hadn’t yet aged out of clasping her mother’s hand. “Ame,” as everybody called Amethyst Sistine Silv…