Sandra Acebedo hugs and greets Norma Rios Sierra, as Juliet De Jesus Alejandre, right, back to camera is greeted and hugged by a parent of a high school student, Monica Espinoza, who was handing out flowers to students, parents and staff, at Schurz High School on Aug. 25, 2022.
The students seemed somber and nervous as they walked by the ice cream shop where the shooting happened and past two flashing-blue police cars into the school, De Jesus Alejandre said. A line of kids jutted out from the main door as they waited to go inside.De Jesus Alejandre said she wanted to make sure the students would not feel alone. Some of the kids might be tall or have mustaches, but they are still babies, she said.
That’s when a front seat passenger “opened fire into a crowd of people,” hitting the four teens and leaving one casing in the backpack of a 15-year-old Schurz student who was shot in the back and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, according to police. “They have him sleeping right now,” Joseph Brown said, adding that his son was breathing through a tube, and doctors had been checking for swelling. “No main arteries were hit. Nothing major damaged. Nothing damaged his spine.”He said a Schurz teacher had alerted him to the shooting but he didn’t know many details.Police said the two other shooting victims attend Aspira Antonia Pantoja High School, a Chicago Public Schools charter school, though it’s not managed by CPS.
Wednesday was the third day of the new CPS school year, and Schurz, at the corner of Milwaukee and Addison, went on lockdown when the shooting happened “just prior to the school’s dismissal bell,” according to an emailed statement from Chicago Public Schools.The mother of a 14-year-old freshman at Schurz said she was parked near the ice cream shop, waiting to pick up her daughter, when she heard eight to 10 shots.
“I’m very scared walking outside by myself now. I don’t feel safe being around here anymore,” Baker said. He feels secure once he’s inside the school, he added.
Thank you for your coverage of this tragedy. Are you also aware that Tuesday someone opened fire as kids were walking to school from Germano Millgate Apartments in the 10th Ward by 89th and Burley?
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