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CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- When the shooting started at the UpBeat Music and Arts school on Tuesday, children, teachers and parents ran a couple of doors down to a car dealership.
Inside Berman Subaru, service lane manager Theresa Losuriello was sitting at her desk. She heard sirens, and then people started coming in.
"I had no idea what was going on. There were some children that were crying, some teachers and one or two parents,” Losuriello told WBBM Newsradio on Wednesday.
Initially, there were 10 to 15 children and about 10 adults. More came in.
"I went to our vending machine and started to get cookies and snacks for the children, laid them out on the table,” Losuriello said.
"I really didn't do a whole lot, I promise you that. But I just wanted to make sure everybody felt comfortable and they felt safe."
Old Irving Park neighborhood resident Sheri McGuire has a 7-year-old daughter who attends the music school. She was not at the school when the shooting happened, but she says she is shaken.
"Everyone in the neighborhood is heartbroken and very, very sick to our stomachs, to be honest."
The shootout at the music school occurred as a bank robbery suspect fled from police along Irving Park Road. He was fatally shot by a Des Plaines police officer who followed the suspect from that suburb.
A 15-year-old boy at the school – reportedly a Lane Tech sophomore who is an intern there – was hit by gunfire in the arm and abdomen. Police officials on Wednesday say he is recovering, as is a Chicago police officer shot by the suspect.