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New Haven police: Gunman fired into car with family, including toddler, inside, shoots mother

Police are looking for a gunman who they said fired into a car with a family in it, including a 2-year-old, in New Haven Tuesday, wounding the mother.

The woman, 23, was released from Yale-New Haven Hospital after being treated for a gunshot wound to the leg, police said Wednesday.

The shooting happened about 4:45 p.m. in the Fair Haven neighborhood when the family of three — the mother, father and toddler — stopped on Maltby Place near a relative’s house, police said.

An unknown gunman on foot fired at the parked vehicle and then fled north on Maltby Place toward Clay Street,” Capt.