Gunshots rang out in Birmingham’s Collegeville public housing community Thursday evening, sending three people- including a toddler and a teenager – to the hospital.

The shooting happened about 6 p.m. at 2946 29th Avenue North.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said North Precinct responded to the location on a report of a person shot.

When they arrived, they found an adult female inside of an apartment unit suffering from a gunshot wound. Authorities said her injuries are life-threatening.

Officers also found a 2-year-old girl who sustained a graze wound.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue took the woman to UAB Hospital. The little girl was taken to Children’s of Alabama and is expected to be OK.

While the officers were investigating, they learned a 16-year-old boy showed up at Children’s with a gunshot wound. His injuries aren’t life threatening either, Fitzgerald said.

Investigators believe an argument broke out between the woman and a group of people, including the 16-year-old boy.

Both the woman and the 16-year-old exchanged shots, and both were injured, police said.

Fitzgerald said police are not saying who fired first.

“The 2-year-old baby was just caught in the crossfire,’’ he said. “We have a child that caught in the crossfire of older folks’ business.”

Thursday’s shooting was the second time this year that gunfire in Collegeville has left a child injured.

In April, police say more than 70 bullets were fired in a shooting that sent a young girl and her mother to the hospital.

The dozens of rounds were fired from multiple shooters. Investigators said they recovered spent shell casings from both handguns and rifles.

The woman and her 5-year-old daughter both survived.

The April shooting happened in the 3000 block of 29th Avenue North.

“Yet again we’re in the Collegeville neighborhood where a child has been struck by gunfire,’’ Fitzgerald said tonight. “We’re just thankful the child was crazed and not shot.”

“We hate the adult female and the 16-year-old were shot, but we’ve got to change this,’’ he said. “We’re losing too many of our community members, and we’re seeing too many innocent babies struck by gunfire.”

Anyone with information is asked to call Birmingham homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or 205-254-7777.