HOUSTON - An 11-year-old boy was shot and killed over the Labor Day weekend while playing a ding-dong ditch prank with friends in East Houston, according to police.

Boy shot and killed over childhood prank

What we know:

Houston police say officers were called to Mimbrough Street just before 11 p.m. Saturday and found a boy shot in the back. A witness told investigators they saw the boy and possibly two other kids running from a home after ringing the doorbell and then heard two to three gunshots. The witness told police someone with a gun ran out of the house and opened fire. Police say the boy was hit multiple times, rushed to a hospital, and died Sunday afternoon.

"A witness said someone ran out of the house and was shooting at the kids running down street, and unfortunately, one o

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