Deputies said the suspect claimed the gun went off by accident, but investigators said they found evidence that the gun had been shot multiple times.
"Boys learned a lesson tonight," HPD Lt. Ronnie Willkens said after a 14- and 18-year-old were injured during an accidental shooting at an apartment in Houston's Greater Third Ward.
The family was getting ready to get pizza when the boy found the gun under the driver's seat, police said.
Andrew Lester, 86, was set to go on trial this week for shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who mistakenly knocked on his door.
Former "Even Stevens" actress Christy Carlson Romano is recovering after she says she was shot in the face.
A woman was rushed to the hospital after deputies say her 3-year-old got ahold of a gun inside their vehicle and accidentally fired shots near Bissonnet Street in SW Harris.