{"id":354356,"date":"2026-08-11T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/2-custodians-found-shot-dead-inside-chicago-elementary-school-police-say"},"modified":"2026-08-11T06:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:53:14","slug":"2-custodians-found-shot-dead-inside-chicago-elementary-school-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/2-custodians-found-shot-dead-inside-chicago-elementary-school-police-say","title":{"rendered":"2 custodians discovered shot lifeless inside Chicago elementary faculty, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Two school custodians were found shot dead on Monday inside Mark Twain Elementary School, just north of Chicago&#8217;s Midway International Airport, according to <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/authorities-responding-reports-garfield-ridge-chicago-shooting-south-lotus-avenue-mark-twain-elementary-school\/19658403\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News&#8217; Chicago station WLS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Chicago Police Department said in a statement that two adults were discovered unresponsive on Monday afternoon &#8212; one 48-year-old female victim with a single gunshot wound to her head, and 63-year-old male also with a single gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Both people were transported to Christ Hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A weapon was recovered on scene, the statement added. The investigation is ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The school&#8217;s principal said that no students were inside the building at the time of the shooting, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/authorities-responding-reports-garfield-ridge-chicago-shooting-south-lotus-avenue-mark-twain-elementary-school\/19658403\/\" target=\"_blank\">WLS reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">ABC News&#8217; Darren Reynolds contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/2-custodians-found-shot-dead-inside-chicago-elementary\/story?id=135540004\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two school custodians were found shot dead on Monday inside Mark Twain Elementary School, just north of Chicago&#8217;s Midway International Airport, according to ABC News&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30788,548,30784,30786,30787,8810,420,30785,13192],"class_list":["post-354356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abc-news-chicago-station-wls","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-police-division","tag-chicagos-halfway-worldwide-airport","tag-christ-hospital","tag-darren-reynolds","tag-lifeless","tag-mark-twain-elementary-faculty","tag-wls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354358,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354356\/revisions\/354358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}