PROVIDENCE — A man who escaped being shot on Pleasant Street in Mount Hope about three weeks ago was shot there yesterday morning, the police said.

Eighteen-year-old James Goddard, of 2 Carver Court, who was outside munching a sandwich made by his mother, was wounded in the leg, but escaped serious injury when someone in a passing car cut loose with a handgun, according to a police report. A witness said about eight shots were fired.

“Mom, I got shot in my leg,” Goddard called out as he ran back into his apartment. A relative drove Goddard to the emergency room of Miriam Hospital, where, Maj. Paul C. Fitzgerald said, he was treated for a single gunshot wound.

In a case of bad aim or mistaken identity on Aug. 1, Kevelin Davis, 29, of 19 Pleasant Court, was shot five times in the vicinity of 61 Pleasant St., in a drive-by shooting like yesterday’s. Goddard, who was standing near Davis that night, is believed to have been the shooter’s intended target, Fitzgerald said yesterday.

Police officers marveled at the fact that Davis survived his wounds, because he had been shot with a 45-caliber handgun. He was hit once in the arm and four times in the back, the police said at the time.

When he was taken for treatment, a hospital employee found that Davis had bags of crack hidden between his buttocks. Davis was charged with drug possession, and after he was released from the hospital, he was turned over to federal authorities because he was in violation of his probation on a federal firearms charge, according to the police.

As for Goddard, he was on the sidewalk, across the street from McCann Place, shortly before 11:30 a.m. when a dark-colored vehicle with a broken headlight drove down Pleasant. He told the police that “the vehicle looked shady,” and he began to run away. As he ran, the shots were fired, he said.

His mother, Jeanne Wilson, 50, of 10 Pine Grove St., Pawtucket, told the police that she had made a sandwich for her son and that he ran back into the apartment within seconds of having left.

The police determined that the car that carried the drive-by shooter yesterday was apparently stolen on June Street, Wanskuck.

gsmith@projo.com