Overview
- Two custodians were found fatally shot inside Mark Twain Elementary on Monday afternoon and police are treating the case as an apparent murder‑suicide after recovering a weapon and confirming no students were in the building.
- About three hours later a 25‑year‑old man and a 22‑year‑old woman were killed in a drive‑by outside a Fuller Park gas station when occupants of a silver Nissan opened fire and then fled eastbound, and no arrests had been reported that night.
- A near‑downtown shootout on the Near North Side left two men critically wounded around 9:17 p.m. and police detained a person of interest while recovering a weapon and collecting witness video.
- Police say nine people were shot citywide Monday evening, three fatally, and detectives are gathering surveillance footage, shell‑casing evidence and hospital records while urging public tips as investigations remain active.
- Local reporting by CWB Chicago adds the Back of the Yards slaying to a running tally of 91 shootings in former ShotSpotter areas where delayed discovery occurred, a pattern advocates say highlights risks from the 2024 end of the city’s gunshot‑detection contract.