CHICAGO — More than 100 Benito Juarez high school students joined a walkout midday Monday on the school’s first day of classes since four teens were shot and two were killed Friday.
As the students gathered at the spot just outside their school building where Nathan Billegas, 14, and Brandon Perez, 15, were fatally shot, they raised their arms in an effort to reclaim the space.
“Let us pause now, mindful of the memories of our dear brothers, far too young, far too soon, who have died in our midst,” Father Brendan Curran of the Resurrection Project said.
