Chicago Hospital Shooting
Police officer among three killed
A gunman killed three people, including a police officer, at a hospital in Chicago, authorities said on Monday.
The gunman had opened fire outside Mercy hospital on the city’s South Side, killing an emergency room doctor with whom he was having a domestic relationship, then ran into the hospital and fatally shot a pharmacy resident and a police officer.
The attacker also died on Monday but it was not clear if he took his own life or was killed by police, Superintendent Eddie Johnson said.
Chicago “lost a doctor, pharmaceutical assistant and a police officer, all going about their day, all doing what they loved,” the mayor, Rahm Emanuel, said. “This just tears at the soul of our city. It is the face and a consequence of evil.”
Mercy Hospital said the staff who died were Tamara O’Neal, 38, an emergency room doctor, and Dayna Less, 25, a first year pharmacy resident who had recently graduated from Purdue University.
The dead police officer was identified as Samuel Jimenez, 28, who joined the department in February 2017 and had recently completed his probationary period, Johnson said. Police said he was married and the father of three children.
The identity of the gunman was not immediately released. CNN quoted anonymous law enforcement officials saying the shooter was a 32-year old man.
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