A baby is killed and a woman is injured in what police are calling an apparent drive-by shooting.

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Louisville Metro Police are investigating after a baby was shot and killed.Police originally thought it was a drive-by shooting, but now say the person or persons responsible were on foot.The shooting happened around 6 p.m. Wednesday in the 100 block of South 37th Street.Mobile videoThe baby and her mother were shot outside a home. The baby was rushed to Kosair Children's Hospital, where she died a short time later. Her mother is recovering at University of Louisville Hospital."This don't make no sense. This really doesn't make any sense," said Sherrie Miller, a relative of the victims.Miller said her granddaughter and great-granddaughter were the ones who were shot."It was like six guys, they said six guys come around this corner. One of them had a white T-shirt on and then there was some more of them. And said they came up there, and the case shells is up on my daughter's porch, (and they started) shooting," said Miller."Well I knew it wasn't firecrackers. It sounded like firecrackers, but it was gunshots," said neighbor Eva Goodrich.Goodrich lives a half block from where the shooting took place. She was in her basement when she heard the gunfire."I could really hear them because they were right there at my basement window," said Goodrich.Police are still trying to piece together exactly what happened and who's responsible."Obviously this appears to be some sort of drive-by situation, but again, it's too early to tell whether these individuals were the target of this shooting," said LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell.Miller said violence is plaguing this part of Louisville."They need to stop letting these hoodlums out, these crack-head, dope-head people out," said Miller.She wants to see more police officers patrolling the streets."Let's do something about it; let's get the job done. We need more police officers," said Miller.The woman's mother said she was shot in the stomach. So far, no arrests have been made in the case.