Houston boy, 4, shot as youngsters more and more changing into victims of gun violence in metropolis

A 4-year-old boy was shot in Houston on Friday as youngsters in and across the metropolis proceed to be more and more be victimized by gun violence. 

Officers have been referred to as to an residence complicated simply earlier than 2 p.m. to the 600 block of Nottingham Oaks. They discovered the kid with a gunshot wound to the leg.

The boy was taken to a hospital in a personal automobile the place he’s recovering. He’s anticipated to outlive. The kid was enjoying within the courtyard within the complicated when he started screaming, KPRC-TV reported. 

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No arrests have been made. Authorities haven’t mentioned if the kid was focused and investigators try to find out what led to the capturing. 

Kids proceed to be impacted by gun violence within the metropolis. 

The capturing occurred days after Arlene Lynette Alvarez, 9, was allegedly killed by a person who fired into the automobile she was in as he believed the suspect who robbed him moments earlier was inside, police mentioned. One other 9-year-old, Ashanti Grant, woman stays hospitalized after she was shot within the head on a Houston freeway throughout a street rage incident. 

  

On Feb. 4., an 11-year-old boy, Darius Dugas, was killed in northeast Harris County when he was shot whereas making an attempt to fetch his jacket from a automobile in a car parking zone.