In the Chicago hospital, a man shot three people, including a former bride, and died himself

As a result of the shooting that the man arranged in one of the Chicago hospitals, three people were killed - a policeman, a doctor and a pharmacist. The attacker also died, but so far it is not yet known from the response of law enforcement officers or committed suicide.

The shootout occurred around 15:30 local time on November 19 (00:30 in Moscow on November 20), CNN reports. The incident was the result of the quarrel of the attacker with a woman with whom he previously consisted in a relationship, and she became his first victim, said police representative Eddie Johnson.

The shooter turned out to be 32-year-old Juan Lopez, the former groom of the doctor Tamara O'Neill, who worked in the emergency department, ABC News notes. According to one of the witnesses of James Gray, the man and woman went to the parking lot, then the man turned around and shot his companion three times in the chest. “As soon as she fell to the ground, he turned and shot at her three more times,” Gray said. An eyewitness noted that the incident resembled a scene from the cinema.

After that, the shooter decided to hide in a pharmacy, he was not allowed to be there and he began to shoot, thus killing a second woman - a pharmacy employee.

The deceased law enforcement officer was called Samuel Homens, he had three children. He entered the service in February 2017 and recently completed the internship, becoming a full -fledged police officer.

The police cordoned off the area around the hospital, in particular, due to the fact that an elementary school is located nearby. A partial evacuation was carried out in the medical facility. The cordon was removed at about 17:00.

It should be noted that on November 8, firing occurred at the bar of the American city of Tausend-Ooux near Los Angeles (California). 11 college students and one policeman were killed. The unknown burst into the bar at about 23:20 and began to shoot. The police reported at least 30 shots.

On November 2, the American opened firing at Yoga Studio in the capital of the American state of Florida Tallahassi and then killed himself. As a result, two women were killed, five people were injured. The police reported that 40-year-old Scott Paul Birley acted alone, but the motives of the attack were not installed. According to one version, the tragedy happened due to the home quarrel.

In Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) on October 27, the anti -Semite was firing in the synagogue . At least six people were injured, including two police officers. The shooter entered the building with shouts "All Jews must die" and entered the shootout with the police who had to use cars as a shield.

From a series of these events it follows that recently, shooting sounds in the United States more and more often, users of social networks have begun to make calls to limit the sale of weapons in the country. The Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Wulf, after the incident in the synagogue, said that dangerous weapons were damaged to citizens, and called for measures to prevent cases similar to what happened. However, the American leader Donald Trump does not want to change the rules of ownership of the weapon; Moreover, about shooting in the synagogue, he stated that there was to be armed guard.