CHICAGO — As the Carl Schurz High School students passed under the school’s brown iron gates Thursday morning, community members greeted them with doughnuts and flowers outside the Northwest Side school, a day after a shooting that left four teens wounded, including two Schurz students.
Thursday couldn’t be business as usual, said Juliet De Jesus Alejandre, director of the Palenque LSNA neighborhood group that organized the show of support.
“Loving each other is normal. Violence and this pain isn’t normal, so we can’t normalize it,” De Jesus Alejandre said.
