CHICAGO (AP) – A security guard and two other people were shot during a bank robbery Tuesday morning after four suspects managed to disarm the guard, authorities said.

Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said the guard was shot in the chest and a teller was shot in the back during the attempted robbery at the Illinois Service Federal Savings and Loan on the city’s South Side around 9 a.m. A customer also was shot, but Bond did not know where.

Chicago Fire Department spokesman Richard Rosado confirmed that three people were taken to hospitals but he had no information about their conditions.

Police were searching for the suspects, who witnesses said fled in a maroon vehicle, Bond said. FBI agents were also on the scene, and two nearby elementary schools were locked down as a precaution.

No one will be allowed in or out of McDade Classical School and Neil Elementary School until police give an all-clear, CPS spokesman Malon Edwards said.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the suspects got away with any money.

Pilar Jones said her 18-year-old daughter, Jasmine Tate, was working as a teller inside the bank during her second day on the job when the robbery occurred. Tate was unhurt but called her mother from inside the building.

“She yelled into the phone that ‘We’re being robbed. A security guard has been shot and I can’t get out,'” Jones said.

A recorded message left on the bank’s main telephone number Tuesday instructed callers to try back later. A voicemail message left at that number was not immediately returned.

Several messages left for comment at the bank’s other Chicago branch were not immediately returned.

Chicago Alderman Freddrenna Lyle, a customer of the bank, located within her ward, said the bank had no bulletproof separation between customers and tellers but she believed security was adequate. Lyle said that was a way to make the bank appear less intimidating to customers in the largely middle class African-American community.

Neighbors said the bank was fixture in the neighborhood.

“The bank here has been prominent for the community … it has some of the best people working for it,” said Robert Stevenson, whose niece works at the bank, but was not at work when the robbery occurred.

Wilma Lewis, manager at Red Pepper’s Lounge, a nearby bar, said she arrived at work after the shootings, but still was worried for her safety.

“My girlfriend called and told me. I parked much closer to the front of the building in the handicap spot, so I don’t have to walk.”