{"id":363059,"date":"2025-11-07T21:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363059\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:35:18","slug":"child-airlifted-to-houston-hospital-after-shooting-in-new-waverly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363059\/","title":{"rendered":"Child airlifted to Houston hospital after shooting in New Waverly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A child is in serious condition after what happened Friday morning at a New Waverly home.<\/p>\n<p>NEW WAVERLY, Texas \u2014 A child was rushed to a Houston hospital in serious condition Friday morning after being shot at a home in New Waverly, according to the Walker County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies got the call of an accidental shooting at a house on Gibbs Street near Slott Lane around 11:16 a.m. Walker County EMS and the New Waverly Fire Department also headed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>First responders got there in less than a minute and immediately started working to save the child&#8217;s life, the sheriff&#8217;s office said. The child was first taken by ambulance to Conroe Regional Hospital, then flown by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The Walker County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Criminal Investigations Division is now looking into what happened, with help from the Texas Rangers. The scene was still active as of Friday afternoon, and officials said they won&#8217;t be sharing any more details right now.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know how old the child is, who pulled the trigger or if charges will be filed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/child-airlifted-houston-hospital-shooting-new-waverly\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a> or call 713-521-4310 and include the best way to reach you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child is in serious condition after what happened Friday morning at a New Waverly home. NEW WAVERLY,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-363059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115510570202522112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}