WEB DESK
A Police officer and three others, including the gunman, are dead after a shooting at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital, police said Monday. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said a doctor and a pharmaceutical assistant were the other victims.
Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago police spokesman, identified the slain officer as Officer Samuel Jimenez.
Guglielmi said the gunman was killed, but it’s unclear if he took his own life or was killed by police. In a later tweet, Guglielmi called it a “domestic-related active shooter.”
Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the incident began in the parking lot with an argument between a man and a female hospital employee he was in a relationship with. A friend of the woman tried to intervene, and police said that is when the gunman lifted up his shirt and showed a gun. The friend fled into the hospital.
The motive of the shooting is not yet known. The facility was evacuated during the incident as armed police rushed to the scene. The Mercy hospital said on Twitter that the shooting was over and the patients were safe.
PO Samuel Jimenez has arrived at the Cook County Medical Examiner surrounded by Chicago-area law enforcement and public safety community. #ChicagoPolice #StMichaeltheArchangel pic.twitter.com/6HwMMOLill
— Tom Ahern (@TAhern_) November 20, 2018