HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A man was hit in the head with a gun before he was shot while walking to a store in southwest Houston Friday night.
It happened around 9:30 p.m. on Skyline near Unity.
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The victim was approached by the shooter who tried to rob him, according to Houston police. The man was shot in the leg before the shooter took off in a white car.
The man in his mid-30s is expected to survive, officers said.
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The shooting was one of seven separate violent incidents across the city where nine people were shot. Two people died in those shooting.
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