A 14-year-old girl and a security guard were shot Tuesday afternoon outside Phillips Academy High School on Chicago’s South Side as school was letting out, police said.
The shooting happened just after the security guard, a 46-year-old man, opened the doors in the back entrance near Pershing Road and Giles Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood, according to Chicago police Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan.
The girl, a student at the school, was shot in the abdomen and was in critical condition at Comer Children’s Hospital, police said. The guard was shot in the left arm and back and was in fair condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said.
No one was in custody late Tuesday afternoon and an investigation is ongoing, Deenihan said. A motive was unknown, he said.
The guard was standing 10 feet from the door when the shooting took place, Deenihan said.
Records show that Phillips decided last year to get rid of both of its two school resource officers. Resource officers are uniformed, armed Chicago police officers. Security personnel at a school who aren’t resource officers are unarmed.
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