NEW ORLEANS — For the second day in a row, the New Orleans Police Department is investigating the shooting of a child.
This incident happened in the 5900 block of Bullard Avenue in New Orleans East on Wednesday shortly after 6:15 pm.
Per the NOPD, the shooting appears to be accidental.
According to a witness, the shooting happened in the parking lot of a nail salon while she was inside. The woman said she heard something that sounded like a car backfiring. Shortly after, a mother inside the nail salon ran outside.
The witness said the woman's son and at least one other person had been waiting in a car outside when they found the young boy shot. People in the nail salon contacted police, but the child was taken to the hospital via private conveyance before EMS arrived.
Just the day before, another two-year-old boy accidentally shot himself inside a car outside the Costco on Dublin Street.
He's in critical, but stable condition.
Police say the child was in the car while his brother, 18-year-old Zyaire Cornelius, was in line for gas when the boy shot himself in the leg.
Cornelius was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center on Tuesday on charges of second-degree cruelty to juveniles and illegal possession of a stolen firearm.
Several other children have fallen victim to accidental shootings in recent weeks.
On Friday, a four-year-old in Baton Rouge killed himself with a gun found under his dad's passenger seat.
In June, a two-year-old shot and killed himself at a home in Hollygrove.
And back in April, a three-year-old girl died after shooting herself with a gun in a home in the French Quarter.