Chicago: A seven-year-old girl was shot fatally and her six-year-old brother was seriously injured in Chicago when someone fired a shot when a sibling sat in a parked car, police said.
The seven-year-old woman was shot in the chest and chest Sunday afternoon and said killed at the Loyola University Medical Center, police said.
He was identified as Serenity Broughton by the Cook County medical examiner office.
His six-year-old man was hit on his chest and right armpit and “fighting for his life ” at the hospital, Chicago police chief Patrol Brian McDermott said Sunday night.
The Central Belmont environment where the girls shot in the northwest side of Chicago are” gang conflict areas , “he said, adding that it did not believe their girls or mothers were targeted.
The girls included victims of the violent of the weekend gun in Chicago who left 55 people shot, including five fatal, from Friday afternoon to Monday morning, Chicago Tribune Reporting.
The shooting took place amid efforts to curb weapons that increased in the city and around the US.
After the shooting on Sunday, officers responded to the Shotspotter warnings and tried their first aid to injured girls when they were waiting for paramedics.
The shooting occurred when The girls put two young people in the back seat of the car, McDermott said.
McDerm OTT said the police tried to determine whether there was a lot of shooters and whether they walked or in a vehicle.
He urged anyone with information about shooting to contact the police.
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