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The assistant director of Berwyn killed during a shootout just outside her suburban school was murdered by her husband, said her family, and her mother was also killed.
The shooting, which took place just after 4 p.m. Tuesday, caused a locking of the school.
The Berwyn police heard shots shortly near Lincoln Middle School, at 6432 16th St., and responded to the scene, according to the Berwyn police department. When they arrived, the police found a man pulling a rifle in another vehicle. The police were criticized from the suspect to their approach, police said. The police covered each other and did not turn the fire.
Police identified one of the victims as assistant director Nerissa Lee on Wednesday.
“They are my family, I mean that it is a horrible thing, you know that I have a lot of emotions. I don’t really know what to feel,” said Shana Everage, Lee’s sister.
Evening says that their mother was also killed during the shooting. Lee’s husband Steven Lee died later from a self-inflicted ball injury.
Police called the “domestic situation” incident, and Everage said that he “had not left blue”.
“It had started since I wanted to say the tail at the end of June and fundamentally, the boiling point would have been yesterday,” said Everage.
More than a dozen gunshots can be heard on safety images of a neighbor obtained by NBC Chicago.
The video captured by the Sky 5 helicopter from NBC Chicago showed two vehicles in the middle of the street and what seemed to be blood on the sidewalk. A number of police officers worked on the scene, who were blocked by a crime stage cassette.
A memorial grows in school, with balloons, flowers and candles that line the street while students struggle with loss.
A student told NBC Chicago that she was safe around Lee. Another said that she would miss Lee’s laughter.
“I saw her laughing with others and she laughed so hard that I did not understand the joke but I also laughed,” said the student.
The students also remembered Lee for his commitment to his work.
“She has always been, always about her work, she seems to have really liked her school, really liked her children,” said another student. “She was all about what she had to do.”
The directory page of the website of the website of the Berwyn North School District 98 website listed Lee as deputy director and specialist in the study program.
The superintendent of the Berwyn North 98 school district, Dr. Michelle Smith, said that courses will resume on Thursday after being canceled on Wednesday, adding that the advisers should be there.
