Youth shot in the stomach overnight in southwest Houston

Police taped off a portion of a parking lot behind Sharpstown Mall on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, in Houston. Two men were expected to survive after having been shot Thursday in a drug-related shootout at an apartment complex across the street from a mall, police said. The shooting was initially reported as an attempted carjacking in the mall's parking lot. But investigators later determined the two unidentified men were injured during a gun battle involving up to five people inside an apartment at a complex across the street from Sharpstown Mall in southwest Houston, said Houston Police Capt. Bruce Williams. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Sharon Steinmann )

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Police are investigating an incident Tuesday night in which a southwest Houston boy was shot in the stomach.

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Houston Police Department responded to the call around 9 p.m. from a home in the 5900 block of Bissonnet. There, they found the juvenile injured, said Lt. Larry Crowson with the Houston Police Department.

The child, whose name and age have not been released, is expected to survive. He was shot a few blocks to the north and then walked to his cousin’s apartment on Bissonnet.

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Police were unsure early Wednesday where the shooting took place. Officers found a shell casing nearby but don’t know yet if it’s related to the shooting, Crowson said.

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