Watch: 9-year-old dodges bullet in apartment during drive-by shooting

Dramatic video shows the moment a 9-year-old boy narrowly escaped being struck by a bullet that whistled though his Texas apartment earlier this month during a drive-by shooting.

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The boy was walking in the living room of his residence at the Miramar apartments in Fort Worth on May 1, KXAS-TV reported. He was crawling onto the couch when bullets came flying through the window, according to KDFW-TV .

The boy quickly crouched low on the couch to avoid being struck as the bullets clanged into the apartment, according to the television station.

The 9-year-old quickly ran to his mother’s room after the shooting.

“I thought it was fireworks, but when I heard everybody screaming,” the boy told WFAA-TV .

At least four bullets entered the apartment, the boy’s mother, MaryJane Gonzales, told KDFW .

“Those shots were close,” she told WFAA . “It happened as soon as he sat down. If he would have been standing one second longer, he would have got hit.”

Six people between the ages of 3 and 19 were wounded during the drive-by shooting outside the apartment complex near 3000 Las Vegas Trail in Fort Worth, KXAS reported. Four of the victims were children.

A 3-year-old girl injured in the shooting lost a kidney, her family told KXAS .

“You could hear everybody screaming downstairs,” Gonzales, told KDFW . “And the screams were hard screams, not playful screams.”

Gonzales, who is a medical assistant, rushed downstairs to help.

“I was the first one to start helping everybody, asking for towels, for anything to help put pressure on their wounds,” she told KFDW .

Gonzalez said her son has been traumatized by the shootings.

Another shooting occurred at the same apartment complex over the weekend as the boy was visiting a family friend, WFAA reported.

“I don’t feel safe. I don’t want to live here anymore,” the boy told the television station.

“We should feel safe where we lay our head down at night, and we don’t,” Gonzalez told WFAA .