ENGLEWOOD — Parents at an Englewood elementary school said they were disturbed after a Chicago Public Schools security guard was stabbed at the school after dismissal Tuesday.
Details about the incident are scarce, but police said a fight involving a knife broke out at Bond Elementary School, 7050 S. May St. on Tuesday afternoon, sending three people to the hospital, including a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl.
"I thought it was a good school but it's not safe here. People are getting stabbed here that's not safe for kids," Elaine Cobbins said Wednesday morning while dropping her daughter off for school.
The fight broke out around 4:20 p.m. Tuesday after classes had been dismissed, police said.
When officers arrived they found a 50-year-old CPS security guard who had been stabbed by a young girl. The girl's age is not being released because she is a juvenile, police said.
A 13-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl who had intervened in the fight were also injured along with a school administrator, police said.
All of the victims except the school administrator were taken to St. Bernard Hospital in good condition. The administrator drove to an area hospital, police said.
The injuries were all "superficial in nature," police said.
Detectives could be seen entering the school a few minutes before the morning bell Wednesday morning.
Police referred further question to CPS. CPS officials, meanwhile, had no comment on the incident.
Cobbins transferred her daughter to the school a few weeks ago, which made Tuesday's violence even more disturbing. She picked her daughter up around 4 p.m. Tuesday and was never notified by the school about the incident.
"It's shocking. They should've called to at least let the parents know," Cobbins said. "It's kinda sad. I'm scared for myself."
Cobbins wasn't the only parent who felt out of the loop. Diane Todds said her daughter was in the school when the incident occurred, but she knew nothing about it. Thankfully, the kids were in the gym at the time, Todds said.
"It's surprising to me. I told [my daughter] I wish I had kept her in that private school. It's really surprising to find out the way I did. It's very disturbing," Todds said,
After hearing about the incident on Facebook, she wanted to keep her daughter home from school but was persuaded by her daughter's passion for school, she said.
"She refuses to stay home if she's not sick," Todds said. "It's disturbing but I wasn't going to keep her sheltered from her education, but I'll be here at 4 [p.m. Wednesday] to make sure she's OK."
"In Englewood, these things are like leaves on a tree they happen so much," said Todds, who's lived in the neighborhood over 40 years.
The school does have metal detectors just inside its front doors, where students and parents were welcomed through by a young man wielding a walkie-talkie, parents said.
Tameca Hariston, 38, said the incident highlights her growing concerns at the school.
"If you need metal detectors at the front door you need an off-duty cop or some adult there. That's just the reality of where we are," said Hariston, a life-long Englewood resident.
"It's unsettling. Those metal detectors aren't always on. I'm not going to lie for them or sugar coat it because those are our children in there in danger."
Hariston marched her kindergartner into and immediately out of the school Wednesday morning after seeing most of the students waiting in the lunch room for classes to start. While the students were being watched by school employees, most of the staff was in a meeting and Hariston didn't feel there was enough supervision, especially after the Tuesday's incident.
"I'm nervous just to drop her off at the door. That's why I'm out here with my baby," she said.
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