A 6-year-old girl witnessed her father fatally shoot her mother’s new boyfriend outside an elementary school on Chicago's West Side.
The Chicago Tribune reports the shooting happened about 9:30 a.m. Friday as the mother, holding her infant daughter, was walking the 6-year-old to the Moving Everest Charter School while the boyfriend waited in a parked SUV, police say.
As Richard L. Buick, 30, sat behind the wheel, the girl’s 27-year-old father walked up and fired a .40-caliber handgun, hitting Buick several times, police say. The baby, the girl and her mother were not hit.
A teacher at the school, Andrew Scott Musso, was in a hallway with a colleague when he heard three loud bangs, then saw a light pole “violently trembling” from Buick plowing into it after being shot.
Musso, who teaches social and emotional development, said he first helped students get to safety, then ran outside with a nurse.
They saw a woman near the SUV, screaming for help, and Buick slumped over in the driver’s seat. The front windows were blown out.
The nurse began CPR while Musso hopped into the front passenger seat and worked on getting the driver out.
Buick was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m. from multiple gunshot wounds.
The suspected gunman remained at large.