2-year-old boy in critical condition after apparently accidental shooting in SE Houston

A 2-year-old boy is in critical but stable condition after he was shot in southeast Houston on Sunday, police said.

The shooting happened around 11 p.m. in the 10900 block of Telephone Road, just north of the South Sam Houston Parkway.

The boy’s parents took him to the hospital after he was shot, police said.

The shooting was apparently accidental, Houston police said. Other circumstances of the shooting are unclear.

No charges have been filed at this time.

The shooting comes almost a week after a 3-year-old boy was shot in Sunnyside, on May 15.

The boy, Sir Romeo Milam, was with his grandmother, Loriann Milam, and his mother when gunfire erupted at their apartment complex. The three had to jump on the ground as bullets whizzed past their apartment, Milam said.

But even as the three took cover amid the gunfire, a bullet struck the boy in his abdomen, eventually traveling out the boy's back, Milam said.