A 5-year-old was taken to a Houston hospital after a shooting that Beaumont police said may have been accidental.
Beaumont police received reports of the shooting at 2:46 p.m. Thursday at an apartment complex in the 4000 block of Maida Road. When officers arrived, they found the child with a gunshot wound, Beaumont police spokesperson Rodrick Williams said.
Officers treated the 5-year-old at the scene before EMS took the child to a local hospital in stable condition. The child was later taken to a Houston hospital for further treatment, Williams said…