BATON ROUGE - A two-year-old was injured in a shooting after being brought to the Baton Rouge District 4 headquarters before being taken to the hospital, police officials said.

The shooting happened on Harding Boulevard and the female child was driven to the police station for help.

Morse told WBRZ that a woman thought she saw a relative's stolen car near a McDonald's on Harding Boulevard and attempted to follow the suspect when the suspect got out and shot at her vehicle, striking her two-year-old child in the head. The call came in around 2:45 p.m.

Emergency officials took the child to the hospital in critical condition. BRPD officials initially said the child died as a result of their injuries, but corrected their statement to say she's in critical condition.

Police are searching for a suspect in a stolen vehicle. 

"Violence of any kind, especially violence that harms our children, has absolutely no place in our community. This is not how our city should close the year, and it should never be a headline we grow accustomed to reading," District 2 Councilman Anthony Kenney said in a statement.

"At the same time, law enforcement alone cannot carry the weight of preventing incidents like this. We must continue investing in proactive, community-based measures that keep our neighborhoods safe and our children protected before violence occurs," Kenney added.