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CHICAGO – Moments before his ex-fiancé shot him On the hospital parking lot where she was working, a Chicago doctor called 911 to report that she had spotted the man and feared for his life. While the investigators were trying to reconstruct the events that had resulted in the death of the doctor, a police officer, a hospital employee and the shooter, they were able to provide details on the attack perpetrated Monday at the Mercy Hospital, in the southern district of the city.
Dr. Tamara O-Neal recently canceled her commitment to Juan Lopez so when she saw him, she called for help. She also told an acquaintance about the parking lot that she was scared before this person retired to the hospital to call 911 as well.
When Lopez confronted her, the old couple quarreled over the cancellation of the engagement by O. Neal, and Lopez asked that she make her ring engagement. Then, said the police, people inside and around the hospital heard gunshots.
Dr. Tamara O'Neal was shot by her ex-fiancé while she was going to work at Mercy Hospital.
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O 'Neal fell to the ground. Witness James Gray looked out of the hospital window to see where the shots came from and saw Lopez "stand over her and shoot her three times" he told the press.
As a police car arrived, Lopez pointed his semi-automatic Glock handgun at the police, repeatedly hitting the vehicle before going to the hospital. Officers gave chase.
Once inside the medical center, he continued shooting at officers and at one point he turned and shot Dayna Less, a freshman resident in the hospital pharmacy, when opening the doors of the elevator where she was.
Agent Samuel Jimenez was hit at the nape of the neck, just above the bullet-proof vest he was wearing, and died shortly thereafter. Jimenez had delivered the mail from his station to the post office when he returned and followed other cars of the team that were going to the hospital.
There were indications that Lopez wanted to shoot even more people, including a record of a witness, Jennifer Eldridge, who was hiding in the pharmacy, when she heard the shot and the sound of the shooter waving the door handle locked, an apparent effort to enter.
During the exchange of shots, Lopez was shot in the abdomen. It was then that Lopez, who fired more than 30 shots and reloaded his weapon, put his head to the death and killed himself, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said on Tuesday.
The investigators said they found nothing that would indicate that Lopez had a criminal record. At the time of his death, he was an employee of the Chicago Housing Authority, and officials said that no problems had been reported during his nine months at the job.
But there were other signs of problems in recent years.
In 2014, Lopez was expelled from the city's fire department after threatening a younger sister. When the fire department learned of the existence of threats, it was announced to Lopez that he would be punished. But instead of returning to the academy to meet with department officials, Lopez was ruled out and fired, Fire Department spokesman Larry Merritt said Tuesday.
The same year's records indicate that a friend of Lopez asked for a protective order against him because he was constantly texting her. When she reported the text messages to the police, officers asked her to change her phone number and apply for a protection order. The records show that she asked for the order, but not whether she finally received one, Guglielmi said.
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CBS Chicago reports that the requested protection order asserted that Lopez "slept with a pistol under his pillow" and feared for his safety.
Lopez had a license to own a concealed firearm, and it was unclear if officials were aware of the 2014 complaint when the permit was granted, said Guglielmi, who said Lopez had bought legally four firearms in the last five years. It was also unclear whether a protection order, if granted, would have prohibited Lopez from possessing weapons.
When it was over, the Chicago Police Department was mourning just days before Thanksgiving for the second officer to be killed in less than a year. Cmdr. Paul Bauer was shot dead in February while pursuing a suspect in Loop's business district.
Police Commissioner Eddie Johnson wanted the city to know how much of Jimenez and the other police officers who sued Lopez were heroic.
"They saved a lot of lives because we do not know how much damage he was willing to do," Johnson said Monday night.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at the same press conference at the hospital, reminded the city of what had been lost.
The three victims "were all doing their day and doing what they liked," he said. "It only tears the soul of our city, it's the face and the consequence of the evil."
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