Four people Chicago police said suspected Chicago public school students were gunned down outside a high school on the Northwest Side on Wednesday afternoon.
It is happened outside ice cream shop through street from Carl Schurz High School in block 3600 of North Milwaukee Avenue.
In the evening news At the conference, the police stated that it was believed the four were “CPS students”, but the police did not say if they visited Schurz.
The Chicago Teachers’ Union later tweeted that the victims were from Schurz and “a local charter school”.
The police responded to the message of at about 2:45 pm shots were fired, the victims found in patio area of nearby business, and it is believed that the shots were fired from a dark SUV that was pulling up along Addison Street, Deputy Chief Roberto Nieves told reporters.
Victims, all male, including two 15-year-olds, year-old, 17-year-old and 18-year-old.
One 15-year-old boy who was shot in in face and neck, was taken to the Lurievsk Children’s Hospital, where he was in critical condition, police said. The rest 15-year- old, shot in in back was taken to Stroger, where he was in good condition, police said.
17-year-old, who received a bruised leg wound, was taken to Community First Medical Center in good state while 18-year-old, also fired in leg and in good condition, was taken to the Illinois Advocate Masonic Medical Center, according to police and Larry Merritt, spokesman for Chicago Fire Department.
Schurz, in corner of Milwaukee and Addison went on isolation when the shooting happened”just before school closes bell,” Chicago Public Schools said in an emailed statement.
Nieves said that some of Schurz’s students already was allowed out because the school was late dismissal times. But he said that “most” of the students were still inside building.
“It’s very frustrating,” Nieves said. “We are very upset and disappointed by this. Our #1 priority is safety of our children, especially our children who go to school. They are should be safe come and while they are at school and go home. So we’re going work on keeping it and we reassure parents we will out here protecting our children”.
He said the patrols had intensified in the morning. bell and dismissal times would start Thursday.
The lockdown was later lifted and the students were released, the CPS said in a statement. added.
“Our thoughts with these people were injured in this incident,” the statement said.
Police and fire trucks partially block an intersection in Addison and Milwaukee just until 18:00 Wednesday, the direction of movement bypassing the emergency vehicles. BUT group of policemen gathered around La Michoacana ice cream shop through street from school.
Visible bullet holes from attack destroyed the summit of two glasses windows Near main input of ice cream shop and snacks – soda, bottle of water and steam of bags of chips were abandoned on terrace tables.
By 19:00 the intersection was back open, emergency vehicles we out of look and red and yellow crime the stage tape was stuffed in ice cream shop trash can.
Wednesday was the third day of in new KPS school year. Area just last week unveiled new safety and security plans.
Schurz one of many CPS high schools whose local school board voted under last two years to finish with school resource staff who assigned to watch safety.
Orlando Rodriguez, 56 years old who lives about two blocks south of school and grew up in Irving Park said he often hears gunfire in in his neighborhood late at night and sees teenagers fighting in the park near the school.
“It’s tough here,” Rodriguez said. of violence in area.
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Rodriguez was visiting his son’s grave on Wednesday afternoon when he heard about the shooting outside the school. He said that he and a friend went to La Michoacana ice cream. shop after visiting the grave.
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Rosemary Sable of the Chicago Tribune contributed.
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