Harris County authorities say a 36-year-old man walking toward a building that houses a suburban Houston gun range has been shot and killed after a rifle being worked on inside the building discharged.
Sheriff's spokesman Thomas Gilliland said the bullet from the hunting rifle went through a wall and struck the man who had just got out of his car.
A medical helicopter took the man to a Houston hospital where he died later Tuesday morning.
The victim has not been immediately identified.
KXAN-TV is reporting the shooting took place at about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday at the Hot Wells Shooting Range along Northwest Freeway and Barker Cypress Road.
Gilliland said the shooting appears to be accidental and "doesn't seem to be anything other than that at this point."
He said homicide detectives are questioning range employees and are trying to determine if the shooting was the result of a gun malfunction or human error.
