Man charged in May accidental shooting of son in SE Houston

Ali Parvez Masoom has been charged with making a firearm accessible to his 2-year-old son, who was accidentally shot and critically injured in May 2018. Ali Parvez Masoom has been charged with making a firearm accessible to his 2-year-old son, who was accidentally shot and critically injured in May 2018. Photo: Houston Police Department Photo: Houston Police Department Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Man charged in May accidental shooting of son in SE Houston 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A man has been charged in the accidental shooting of his 2-year-old son in southeast Houston in May.

Ali Parvez Masoom, 32, was released on bond on Friday on a misdemeanor charge of making a firearm accessible to a child.

The shooting happened on May 20 at an apartment on 10901 Telephone Road. Around 11 p.m., the young boy crawled on the kitchen table and grabbed a gun that was lying there, according to court documents.

Masoom is accused of leaving the .380 semi-automatic handgun on the table without a trigger lock in place, the documents show. When the boy got a hold of the gun, he managed to pull the trigger and accidentally shot himself in the face, police said.

He was taken to the hospital in critical but stable condition.

Masoom told police that he owns a trigger lock and usually doesn’t keep a bullet in the chamber. He said that he didn’t use a trigger lock that day, however, and forgot that there was a bullet in the chamber, according to charging documents filed with the Harris County District Attorney.

The child’s mother said she heard the gunshot but wasn’t in the room at the time.

Masoom was arrested and charged on June 30 and was released on $1,000 bond last week.

Several Houston-area children have died this year in accidental shootings. Just Sunday, a 2-year-old boy shot himself and died in Acres Homes, police said.

And in February, 6-year-old Justin Gooden shot himself in the Third Ward with his sister's boyfriend's pistol. Days earlier, 4-year-old Kadren Johnson shot himself with a gun he found at his grandmother's home in Texas City.