3-year-old shot coming out of Brooklyn daycare

NEW YORK - A manhunt is underway for a suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of a three-year-old girl in Brooklyn on Friday evening.

Police say that at around 6 p.m. in Brownsville, the girl was coming out of a daycare center near Boyland Street and Riverdale Avenue with her father when a gunman opened fire.

Police say the shooter was not targeting the girl or her father but was actually aiming at a 28-year-old man who was placing his 2-year-old son in the rear of his car.

The three-year-old girl was struck in the shoulder by one of the bullets. Officers administered aid to the girl before rushing her to Brookdale Hospital.

The NYPD has released surveillance photos of a suspect wanted for allegedly shooting a 3-year-old girl in Brooklyn on Friday. 

The three-year-old is currently listed in stable condition and so far, no arrests have been made. 

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Police say the suspect, described as a man with a dark complexion who work a black mask over his face, a black hooded sweater with the word "Waves" on the back, and black jeans, fled in a white four-door BMW sedan that was operated by a second suspect. 

The NYPD recently announced that five more neighborhood safety teams will be hitting the streets in troubled crime-plagued precincts.

So far this year, according to the most recent statistics available, shootings are up more than 10%.

 Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 

Police say all calls are strictly confidential.