Man and woman shot and killed at Mark Twain Elementary School near Chicago Midway Airport, police say
A man and a woman were killed in a shooting at a Chicago Public Schools elementary school on Monday afternoon near Midway International Airport.
Police said, around 3:40 p.m., two people were found unresponsive inside Mark Twain Elementary School, at 5134 S. Lotus Av. in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood.
A 48-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man both had been shot once in the head. Both victims were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead.
Police said a weapon was recovered at the scene.
According to unconfirmed police dispatch reports, both the man and the woman were school custodians.
Area 1 detectives were investigating.
Several parents came by the school after the shooting, concerned about what happened inside.
Felicia Puga said she's now terrified to drop off her daughter at school in a couple weeks.
"Now I'm questioning if I should even send her, and hopefully there's a school nearby, but we're not in the district for it," she said. "So we're hoping maybe I can get her into that school, because something is not right here."