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Doctors performed an emergency C-section to rescue the baby and a team of specialists from Sick Kids transferred the newborn to Sunnybrook hospital around 11:40 p.m., paramedics said.

The baby was listed in stable condition on Monday.

“It’s a travesty,” Tory told reporters. “My heart goes out in particular to her baby. No baby should come into this world without a mother.”

The vehicle was “certainly targeted,” Det.-Sgt. Mike Carbone said, but it’s not clear why. None of the occupants inside the car were known to police, he said.

Officers were canvassing the neighbourhood for witnesses and surveillance video on Monday. Police released a photo of Bobb, who lived in the Malton area of neighbouring Mississauga.

“We’re all kind of in shock,” Toronto Police Superintendent Ron Taverner said. “The whole community is outraged. The whole city is outraged that this can happen. And yes, this woman was pregnant — and hopefully this baby survives — but any shooting is very tragic. Anything where people are going to that level of violence is just disgusting.”

Supt. Taverner urged the shooter or shooters to “go to a lawyer and turn themselves in to the homicide squad.”

Investigators wouldn’t release any details on the newborn’s condition, other than to say it was stable.

For a baby to have a reasonable prospect of survival, it should have a gestational age of at least 24 weeks and a weight of 500 grams, said Dr. Jodi Shapiro, head of obstetrics and gynecology at Toronto’s Mount Sinai hospital.

“The mother’s life is obviously your first concern,” Shapiro said, “but if they weren’t able to save her, then you turn your attention to the baby.”

With files from the Canadian Press