A man dressed as a character from “Dumb and Dumber” is in critical condition after being shot while allegedly trying to force his way into the wrong Houston apartment early Thursday.

The shooting happened around 2:26 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 2300 block of Bering Drive in the Greater Uptown area, Lieutenant R. Willkens with the Houston Police Department told local news reporters Thursday.

The injured man was taken to a nearby hospital with a gunshot wound to his upper body and was listed in critical condition.

The resident was asleep on his couch when he woke to someone shaking the doorknob and trying to kick the door open. His girlfriend and their 1-year-old child were asleep in a bedroom at the time.

The resident asked his girlfriend whether she recognized the person outside, but she said she did not know him.…