CPS Principal, Staff Stymied Police Investigation of Mass Shooting at Pilsen High School – Illinois Answers Project

For three critical hours after four students were shot, two fatally, at Benito Juarez High School in December 2022, the school principal and some staffers threw up roadblocks to the police investigation and weeks later had to be threatened with grand jury subpoenas to spur their cooperation. According to public documents and police sources, school principal Juan Carlos Ocon and other administrators told detectives that cooperating would violate CPS policy, and they insisted on checking with their legal department.