Mobile police chief Paul Prine told a television station he is “sick and tired of our children and our community being the victims of what I consider to be complete nonsense” after a 6-year-old boy was shot at an apartment complex Tuesday.

Officers were called to the Summer Place Apartments on Azalea Road about 6:15 a.m., according to WKRG.

Arriving at the scene, they discovered the child had been shot at least three times and had the boy immediately transported to an area hospital, where he was taken into surgery.

The report said the child was in critical, but stable condition as of Tuesday afternoon.

Additional information on the incident was not immediately available from the Mobile Police Department.

Prine told the TV station the attack was not random, but the child was likely not the target.