A school shooting at a Chicago high school has left two teenagers dead and two others injured.
Four shooting victims were rushed to Stroger Hospital after the incident at Chicago’s Benito Juarez Community Academy on Friday afternoon.
A Chicago Police Department spokesperson told Newsweek that two young male victims were shot in the head and later died of their injuries, with a 14-year-old pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital and a 15-year-old dying soon after.
Another male 15-year-old victim suffered injuries after being shot in the thigh and shoulder, while a 15-year-old female victim received “a graze wound to the thigh.” Both of the survivors were initially listed in “good condition.”
An investigation into the shooting is ongoing, with no suspects having yet been apprehended. Police did not confirm whether the victims were students at the school.
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The shooting occurred just as students were being dismissed for the day, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. A school clerk told the newspaper that the facility went into lockdown immediately after the shooting but was given an all-clear by police by 3:30 p.m. local time.
Newsweek has reached out to Benito Juarez Community Academy for comment.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.