A 56-year-old woman was struck by a gunshot from outside while she was in her home in eastern Dallas County early Thursday, police said.

Authorities determined during the preliminary investigation that the woman was struck while in the 13200 block of Fish Road in Rylie, an area within Dallas city limits that's just southeast of Balch Springs, Dallas police spokesman Demarquis Black said.

WFAA-TV (Channel 8) reports that the woman was injured while taking a shower.

She drove herself to Dallas Regional Hospital in Mesquite, where officers were notified of a victim suffering a gunshot wound at 6:52 a.m.

The woman was then taken by CareFlite to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.

Her condition is not known.

No suspect information is available at this time, Black said.