MT. MORRIS TWP., MI -- A 2-year-old child narrowly missed being hit by gunfire Monday evening in Mt. Morris Township.

Officers with the Mt. Morris Township Police Department responded around 7:45 p.m. June 18 to the 6000 block of Cypress Avenue after a 911 call for a shooting in the area.

Mt. Morris Township police Chief Terence Green said the child was in the backseat of a vehicle with her mother sitting in the front when "a barrage of bullets came through the rear window."

The mother was hit in the back by multiple bullets, Green said. She drove away from the scene and called 911, managing to make it to a local hospital in the personally-owned vehicle for treatment.

She was listed in critical condition but is expected to survive. The child was not injured.

"It's frustrating...if you have individuals going around shooting into vehicles and you have innocent occupants in that vehicle, especially children," said Green. "If one of those bullets would have struck that child, they probably wouldn't have made it."

Township police are looking for a black pickup truck in good condition with tinted windows and raised wheels based on a description provided by the mother.

Anyone with information on the shooting incident has been asked to contact Mt. Morris Township police Detective Laurie Salem at 810-785-1311 or email lsalem@mtmorristwp.org.