The girl injured Wednesday night is expected to be OK. Meanwhile, police are looking into the possibility that the ordeal began when a neighbor stumbled upon a gun in an apartment complex.
An investigation got underway Wednesday in Houston's Fifth Ward, where a person told officers of a stray bullet shooting.An 11-year-old girl was hit in the buttocks when a gun discovered by a neighbor at a Fifth Ward apartment complex went off and went through a wall, police said.The Houston Police Department said Northeast Patrol officers responded at about 9 p.m.
According to HPD Lt. Larry Crowson, a woman told officers that she had come across a gun while walking in the complex and confiscated it to keep it away from children. While in her apartment, she reached out to a neighbor who she believed knew how to deal with guns, Crowson said. The neighbor was examining the gun in the woman's apartment when it went off, sending a bullet into the wall of an adjoining unit and hitting the girl, according to police.
The neighbor, whom police said is the stepfather of the 11-year-old, was detained for questioning. The case is being presented to the district attorney's office to determine whether charges will be filed.One of the more high-profile cases involving stray bullets took place last month in the Humble area, where a man is accused of causing a woman's death as he opened fire at car burglars.
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