An 11-year-old boy died in a Houston hospital Sunday after he was shot while carrying out a "ding dong ditch" prank the previous night, police said. The boy hasn't been identified.

The Houston Police Department said the boy had been playing the prank with friends late Saturday, which entails ringing the doorbell of a home and running away before anyone inside comes out to answer it. A witness saw the boy ring a doorbell in east Houston and flee the property before he was struck by gunfire, according to a police statement .

Officers received a call about the shooting just before 11 p.m. local time. Police said the boy was wounded when they arrived and taken to a nearby hospital, where he died on Sunday. Sgt. Michael Cass, a Houston homicide detective, told CBS News affiliate KHOU that

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