The mother of the 14-year-old Phillips Academy High School student who was shot Tuesday saw the shooting unfold as she was picking up her daughter from school, according to a Chicago police report.

       About 3:30 p.m., the mother told police that she saw a man get out of a small silver sedan, walk up to the doors of the high school, located at 244 E. Pershing Rd. in the Bronzeville neighborhood, and fire shots at her daughter and a man in his 40s, the report said.

       ShotSpotter — the city’s gunshot detection system — picked up eight gunshots in the area, and police responded to calls of a shooting at the school, the report said. Eight .45 caliber shell casings and one expended bullet were found at the scene.

       The man who fired the shots got back in the sedan and fled northbound, the report said.

       The woman told police that the man was wearing a mask and a white and black camouflaged hoodie, and he looked to be in his 20s and not a student, the report said.

       The girl was shot in the left armpit, the left side of her back and pelvis, the report said. She was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition, police said.

       Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said Tuesday that the shooting happened just after the security guard, a 46-year-old man, opened the doors in the back entrance near Pershing Road and Giles Avenue.

       The guard was shot in the right elbow, left arm and his back and he was in fair condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center, police and the report said.

       The guard was standing 10 feet from the door when the shooting took place, Deenihan said.

       No one was in custody and an investigation remains ongoing, Deenihan said. A motive was unknown, he said.

       Around 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, shots were fired near McDade Elementary Classical School, located at 8801 S. Indiana Ave., hitting a window, police said.

       A male was standing outside when a sedan drove past him and someone inside starting firing shots, police said. He was not hit.

       No arrests have been made, police said.

       The Chicago Teachers Union wrote in a post on Twitter that they are “praying for safety” after learning that the elementary school building was hit.

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