Husband who shot Berwyn principal had his FOID card revoked

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Shana Everage was in bed when she heard the back door of her Broadview home open in the early morning hours of Sept. 16. She didn’t know it at that moment, but it was her older sister Nerissa, who lived just up the street, letting herself in.

Shana got up to use the bathroom wondering what the noise was. That’s when she saw Nerissa in the room where they used to sleep when they were little. She was sitting on the bed with her head in her hands, their mom Joycelyn in the room with her.

That was the last night the three of them spent together.

Three months ago, Nerissa Lee and Joycelyn Everage were fatally shot outside of the Berwyn middle school where Nerissa worked as an assistant principal. They were killed, police say, by Nerissa’s husband