Detroit Police Chief James Craig speaks on the shooting of 4-year-old during a month in which two other children, 3 and 6 months of age, died as a result of gun violence.

In less than a month, two Detroit children have been killed and another injured by gun violence.

The spike in violence involving children prompted Detroit Police Chief James Craig, with anti-violence activists, pastors and a representative from Mothers of Murdered Children, to address the public about a strengthened plan to combat random and senseless violence.

"Outrage is not the word, my heart is broken," said Brenda Hill, president of Mothers of Murdered Children. "We've had three babies -- two dead -- since Easter, and so everybody in this community is feeling the grief."

She lost her 22-year-old son to Detroit shooting violence in 2009.

"We're going to change the course of history," Hill said. "This will no longer happen ... Please join us. It won't stop with the police. It has to stop with us."

A'Naiya Montgomery, 3, was killed in a March 27, 2016 shooting at a home on Riverview Avenue in Detroit. Three men are charged in the Easter morning attack.

A'Naiya Montgomery, 3, died after being struck with multiple bullets inside her home Easter morning.

Six-month-old Miracle Murray died after being struck in the back during a drive-by shooting on April 16.

And on Sunday, a 4-year-old boy was shot while outside with his 24-year-old father, who was killed by the gunfire.

Three men were arrested in connection with killing of A'Naiya.

Miracle's mother has said her son is one of the suspects involved in that shooting.

Detroit police said the killings of Miracle and A'Naiya appear to be connected, although they said Monday there is no known connection with the shooting of a 4-year-old boy last weekend.

"When we look at today, especially when we talk about the death of a 6-month-old murdered as she sat in a stroller, when we talk about a 3-year-old who was robbed of the opportunity to pursue her life's ambition, and a 4-year-old who will forever be afflicted by the memory and tragic circumstances of senseless violence that unfolded before her eyes ... I cannot sit here, I cannot stand here without demonstrating a sense of outrage," Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Monday afternoon.

"I believe that the suspect in every one of them, that the suspects knew or should have know that when they used a weapon and they used a gun they were putting children in harm's way," Craig said.

Regarding Sunday's shooting, "We believe that the suspects intended in some respect to shoot this child riding a bike ... "

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In response to the violence, Craig said officers are targeting two sections in Detroit's Eighth Precinct, located on the west side, where violence has "spiked."

He wouldn't elaborate, but said there will be a concerted and strategic effort to combat crime there, and the effort will continue to move to other targeted areas throughout the city.

Craig equated this new strategy to a prolonged Operation Restore Order effort. Restore Order was a previous series of one-day blitz's in neighborhoods and housing complexes where crime was rampant.

The chief said it's about "taking back neighborhoods, one neighborhood at a time."

The Detroit 300 anti-crime organization, the Detroit Police Crime Reduction Team, neighborhood police, reservists, churches and neighborhood watch programs will be part of the anti-violence program, police said.

"The key to this though, this is collaborative approach," Craig said. "A police department ... cannot be on every block, every corner 24 hours a day, but what we do know is those neighborhoods that flourish are those that ... have stakeholders that join the fight to make the neighborhood safe."

Craig said that while anti-violence marches are "well-intentioned... they do not work."

The approach in the Eighth Precinct involves three tiers: Increased enforcement, community mobilization and street advocacy, working with would-be criminals to defuse violence before it has an opportunity to erupt.

"I'm doing vigils at night you all don't even hear about," said Pastor Maurice "Pastor Mo" Hardwick, who joined Craig in the announcement. "There's too much arguing. Do not shoot this city up. Do not kill our babies ... We're asking you to stand down."

Hardwick said he and others plan to reach out to high-risk members of the community to try and create a nonviolent means for people to work out differences without gun violence.

Hardwick's organization is also putting out a "peace treaty" citywide, "urging young urban Detroiters to take responsibility for (themselves), their community, for their family, to honor their family, their elders, and to be productive," he said. "And in schools, do not make (Detroit Public Schools) an embarrassment or a battleground."

Last week, the group New Era Detroit, another activist organization combating violence, published a somewhat controversial Street Code, a set of rules for dealing with "beefs" and other illegal street activity.

It says no shootings should take place near parks, schools, or parties; there should be no drug "slinging" to children or pregnant women -- "that's genocide of our people," the code says -- and absolutely no targeting of children or shootings when children are present.

Street Code creators say they are taking a "realistic" approach to the city's problems and attempting to mitigate it.

Craig called the code "well-meaning" but added while talking to Fox 2 News: "Have we become so desensitized to violence or crime that certain crimes are OK? The code addresses these safe zones or neutral zones where we don't shoot. Well, how about no shooting, period."