Story By: Darko Manevski, Sub-Editor:  Joana Mihajlovska, Agency: Real Press

Two child sisters have been shot in Chicago leaving one of them dead and the other critically injured.

The girl who died who was reportedly named as Serenity Broughton was aged seven and her sister Aubrey who was aged six has been hospitalised following the shooting in the Belmont Central neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois in the United States.

The tragic shooting happened while the mother was putting the two children into the car at the crossing of West Grand and Merrimac avenues in the mid-afternoon on Sunday.

The older girl was hit in the body while the younger girl was hit in the armpit and chest in the shooting at Chicago’s Northwest Side.

It is unclear who fired the bullets and police are investigating whether more than one person was involved, and do not believe that the sisters were deliberately targeted.

Brian McDermott who is the Chicago police chief of operations spoke to the press offering his condolences to “the families of these two precious young girls, one of whom lost her life and the other who is fighting for her life at this time”.

He added: “To say that I am saddened outraged would be an understatement. I only hope that every resident of this city is as sad and outraged as I am at this time.

“Too many young people have lost their lives to senseless gun violence in the city of Chicago.”

He then appealed for anybody who can help solve this “senseless gun crime” to contact the police even anonymously to catch these “violent offenders” with “no respect for human life to justice”.