A 1-year-old boy has been injured in an apparent road rage shooting in Houston, Texas.
The boy's father was driving on the Southwest Freeway in southwest Houston on Wednesday around 1:15 p.m. when the suspect fired his gun at least once, striking the child in the upper shoulder near his neck, a spokeswoman for the Houston Police Department told reporters.
The father then pulled into a Phillips 66 gas station and ran inside with the baby, police said. Once inside, he called for help and tried to help his son stay alert and awake, the spokeswoman said.HPD commanders, Major Assaults detectives & PIO are en route to scene of a child shot near a gas station at 8601 Southwest Fwy inbound. Preliminary info is the child was transported to an area hospital with at least one gunshot wound in an unknown condition.
The toddler was transported to the Texas Children's Hospital and is in stable condition, the spokeswoman said."Sometimes people don’t think and react," he said."It makes no sense at all."
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