Police say a 3-year-old Colorado child was critically hurt after a shooting at a home in Aurora. It happened on Monday morning after 10 a.m. near the intersection of East Exposition Avenue and South Sable Boulevard.

Aurora police spokesman Agent Matthew Longshore said the mother of the child, who was originally thought to be 4, told investigators she heard a gunshot and then ran inside her house to find the child with the injury.

"We do not believe it was self-inflicted," Longshore said.

Longshore said the child's father was in the home at the time of the shooting, as were other people. After first responders arrived the father was no longer at the home.

"We have officers that are searching for that man now to question him to figure out what his involvement is and why he decided to leave," he said.

Longshore said in an early afternoon news conference that the father is not considered a suspect in the shooting.

At the same time, a relative of the child, a grandmother, was also taken to the hospital with a medical situation.