An 5-month-old boy was shot in the head Monday while sleeping in a Manhattan apartment, the city's sixth shooting incident involving a child in just over two weeks, authorities said.

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The infant, who was not identified, was sleeping in a third-floor apartment when a bullet ripped through the wall of an adjacent apartment and struck the child at 12:35 a.m., said Sgt. Mary Wrensen, a police spokeswoman.The boy was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was in serious but stable condition and expected to survive, hospital officials said.

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