Suspect dead, multiple injured after Chicago hospital shooting

A gunman at a Chicago hospital killed a police officer and two others before dying in the shooting, while to the west of the country in Denver one person was shot and killed on a street corner and three others were wounded.

The Chicago gunman opened fire in the parking lot outside Mercy Hospital & Medical Center before bursting into a lobby at the facility and firing there as well, witnesses told local television stations.

A police officer, Samuel Jimenez, died in the attack, a police spokesman said on Twitter. The gunman also was killed, but it was unclear how.

Officials said two other people were also struck by gunfire, and an investigator at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office later said those two also died.

Police have not commented on a possible motive.

Sue Jimenez, the manager of Kozy’s Cyclery bike shop near the hospital, said she heard multiple gunshots separated by pauses. At one point, she heard five shots in quick succession, she said, but the shooting stopped after police arrived.

In Colorado, Denver police spokesman Doug Schepman told reporters four people were confirmed shot, with one of the victims pronounced dead at the scene. No suspects were immediately arrested.

The three surviving victims wounds were “believed to be non-life threatening”, police said.

Shooting erupted about 4pm in the lower-downtown area of Denver known as Lo Do, a district of the Colorado capital filled with hotels, restaurants and high-rise residential lofts.

“We don’t know right now whether there was one shooter or more than one,” Schepman said.

“It’s too early to say what happened and why. To have multiple gunshots fired in an area like this is quite concerning.”

Schepman said witnesses had told police of a possible fifth victim, a woman, who they thought might have been shot in the leg, but he said officers had been unable to locate her.

SOURCE:
Al Jazeera and news agencies

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