3-year-old struck by gunfire while on walk with his mother in Philadelphia neighborhood

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police are investigating after a 3-year-old was shot in the Grays Ferry neighborhood of the city on Sunday.

The incident happened just after 5 p.m.

Police say a 23-year-old woman was walking down the 1500 block of Taney Street carrying her 3-year-old son when she heard two to three shots fired in the area.

The woman told police she saw two men dressed in dark clothing running from the scene. On Monday, police said evidence now indicates the shooting happened inside a home on the block.

The child's mother told police that when she looked down at her son, she realized he had been struck in the cheek by the gunfire.

Then, a woman driving in the area spotted the mother and son.

The Good Samaritan, Meeka Outlaw, let the mother and her injured son into her car.

"I had been out grocery shopping and stuff, and I hear a woman carrying a baby yelling, running down the street, and I guess it was just the mom instinct, you know?" she recalled.

Outlaw drove them to the nearest fire station on Grays Ferry Avenue for help.

"You got a panicking mom next to me. She didn't want to sit and wait for an ambulance to come. But I knew my car wasn't going to make it over to Children's Hospital because I didn't have enough gas in the car," said Outlaw.

At the fire station, Outlaw stuck by the mother and child while firefighters rushed to their side.

"We got out of the car and we just like yelling to the firefighters that the baby, he's bleeding. And that's when the mom was like, 'He got shot,' and the fire department, I mean, they just jumped into action," she said.

The child was transported to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and is in stable condition.

There have been no arrests made and no weapons recovered.

Officials say the Outlaw's vehicle that was used to transport the mother and child is being held at the scene.