A 5-year-old boy was shot in Southeast D.C. late Friday afternoon.

D.C. police say the boy has been transported to a hospital and is in stable condition.

According to Police Chief Peter Newsham, the five-year-old was walking with his mother to a grocery store around 4:20 p.m. when he was struck in the abdomen by a stray bullet from what Newsham believes was an attempted robbery happening nearby.

“A mother and her five-year-old son ought to be able to walk to the grocery without her having to take her son to the hospital,” Newsham said on Friday.  He said the police are searching for several suspects.

This marks the second child shot in D.C. in less than 24 hours, adding to a number of shootings in 2020 that have involved children. On Thursday night, an 8-year-old girl was shot in the ear while walking past a playground in Southeast. Earlier this summer, 11-year-old Davon McNeal was killed in gunfire during a Fourth of July celebration, and later in July, a 4-year-old girl was injured by a gunshot wound in Northeast. In May, 13-year-old Malachi Lukes was shot and killed in Shaw.

On Thursday, U.S. Marshals arrested another suspect in the 2018 shooting of a child, 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, who was shot while going out to buy ice cream and later died from her injuries.

As of Thursday, there have been 122 homicides in D.C. so far in 2020, up from 106 at this time in 2019.