A 5-year-old Texas boy shot and critically wounded his 6-year-old brother on Monday after accidentally firing a pistol inside their home, police said. The accident was the third incident involving children and guns since Friday in Houston. Police responded to an emergency call that a 6-year-old boy had been shot once in the lower abdomen area around 10:30 a.m. local time on Monday, Harris County Deputy Sheriff Thomas Gilliland told msnbc. When they arrived, officials found the child, later identified as Hayden, lying on the couch, alert and conscious. Hayden was transported to the nearby Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center, and successfully underwent surgery immediately. Read more http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/5-year-old-texas-child-shoots-brother-handgun
