DEARBORN - Family members say they are shocked after two children were shot by another child at a Dearborn home Wednesday, Sept. 27.

Police were called about 10:20 a.m. Wednesday to the 3600 block of Harding Street for a report that two children were shot, according to the Dearborn Police Department.

Investigators believe a toddler accessed a handgun in the home and the weapon discharged, police said.

The injured children, both 3 years old, remain hospitalized in critical, but stable condition.

"This is a tragedy that affects the entire community and we wish the best for the victims involved," Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad said in a news release.

The news stunned Ashley Escobedo, 30, who identified herself as the sister of the woman who lived at the home where the shooting occurred.

Her sister was not licensed to operate a daycare, but babysat the children of family and friends at the home, Escobedo said. She also has six children of her own, between the ages of 2 and 15.

It was not immediately clear if the injured children were being babysat.

"She's going to be devastated," Escobedo said of her sister. "She's very good with kids and she loves all these children as well as her own."

Escobedo said her sister "does not like guns" and even instructed her husband, who hunts on weekends, not to bring guns into the household.

"I don't know how they even got into this house at this point," she said.

Jarrett Schmidt, 24-year-old cousin of the woman's husband, said family members know few details about the incident thus far, but said it was alarming, in part because they've spent time in the home where the shooting took place.

"(So) I'm kind of blown away right now, because my kid was in that house at one point in time and so was I," he said. "We've gone there for birthday parties, barbecues - so, you know I'm pretty shocked."

Several children and at least one adult were believed to have been in the home at the time of the shooting, Haddad told WDIV.

Photojournalist Tanya Moutzalias contributed to this report.