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A 30-year-old woman suffered a critical head injury Monday morning in a shooting in north Omaha.

Reports to Douglas County emergency 911 dispatchers indicated that the shooting, described by rescue squad personnel as a drive-by, may have occurred near North 27th and Kansas Avenues just before 11 a.m. Dispatchers had received reports of 15 to 20 gunshots in the area.

A little after 11 a.m., according to 911 dispatchers, Theresa McGhee walked into the police department’s northeast precinct near North 30th Street and Ames Avenue with a gunshot wound to the left side of her head. McGhee told police that she had been driving in the area of 27th and Kansas when she was struck by gunfire.

She was taken in critical condition to Creighton University Medical Center.