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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Elvia Malagón

‘It scared everybody.’ Students leave class to remember victims of mass shooting outside Benito Juarez high school

Mourners gathered for a vigil outside Benito Juarez high school in Pilsen on Monday, days after a mass shooting there killed two teenagers and wounded two others. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

As the day darkened and drew colder Monday, the memorial outside Benito Juarez High School grew with flowers and lighted candles and messages written on posters on the spot where two students were killed last week.

“It definitely scared me, it scared everybody,” Alex, a sophomore at Benito Juarez, said after leaving two candles and a few posters. “Today at school, it was really depressing and really sad, everybody was talking about it.”

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