A man has been charged with murder and attempted murder Wednesday in connection to the August fatal shooting of 7-year-old Serenity Broughton and her sister, 6-year-old Aubrey Broughton.

       Aaron Luster, 24, was arrested Wednesday morning in the basement of his grandmother’s home in Riverside, police Superintendent David Brown said during a news conference at police headquarters.

       Luster was expected to appear in bond court Thursday.

       The case is one that Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors have sparred over after a suspect was arrested last month.

       On Aug. 15 about 2:50 p.m., the girls were in a parked car near their grandmother’s home in the 6200 block of West Grand Avenue in the Belmont Cragin community when they were shot.

       “These charges are the beginning, we hope, of bringing some measure of closure to the grieving family of these two innocent little girls who were sitting in a parked car when they were struck by gunfire,” Brown said. “Because of this senseless gun violence far too many parents in our city are grieving for a murdered child like Serenity, or praying for their recovery of serious wounds like Aubrey.”

       Brown commended the detectives whose work led to the charges.

       Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said detectives believe the target in the shooting was a family member “who is part of that house.”

       “And unfortunately as you can see all too often, these guys … they just pull up, and they’re in an alley, and they just start firing their handguns in that direction,” he said.

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