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Wednesday 21 november 2018

A demand for a ring, an eruption of gunfire and 4 dead

By AMANDA SEITZ and DON the hospital’s pharmacy, record. At the time of his
BABWIN when the doors of the el- death, he was an employ-
Associated Press evator she was on opened. ee with the Chicago Hous-
CHICAGO (AP) — Moments Officer Samuel Jimenez ing Authority, and officials
before her ex-fiance fatally was struck in the neck, just there said there had been
shot her in the parking lot above the bulletproof vest no reports of any problems
of the hospital where she he was wearing, and soon in his nine months on the
worked, a Chicago doc- died. Jimenez had been job.
tor called 911 to report that delivering his station’s mail But there were other signs
she had spotted the man to the post office when he of trouble in recent years.
and feared for her life, po- turned and followed other In 2014, Lopez was kicked
lice said Tuesday. squad cars racing to the out of the city’s firefighting
As investigators tried to hospital. academy after threatening
piece together the events There were indications that a female cadet. When the
that ended with the deaths Lopez wanted to shoot fire department learned of
of the doctor, a police of- even more people, includ- the threats, Lopez was told
ficer, a hospital employee ing an account from one he would be disciplined.
and the gunman, they witness, Jennifer Eldridge, But instead of returning to
were able to fill in details who was hiding in the phar- the academy to meet with
about the attack Monday macy, when she heard the department officials, Lopez
at Mercy Hospital on the gunfire and the sound of went AWOL and was fired,
city’s South Side. the gunman jiggling the fire department spokesman
Dr. Tamara O’Neal had handle of the locked door, Larry Merritt said Tuesday.
recently called off her en- In this September 2017 photo provided by Monte Gerlach an apparent effort to get Records from that same
gagement to Juan Lopez Photography Dr. Tamara O’Neal poses for a photo. in. year indicate that a girl-
so when she saw him, she Associated Press During the exchange of friend of Lopez sought an
called for help. She also ring. Then, police said, peo- As a squad car pulled up, gunfire, Lopez was shot order of protection against
told an acquaintance in ple inside and around the Lopez turned his Glock once in the abdomen. It him because he was inces-
the parking lot that she was hospital heard gunfire. semi-automatic handgun was then that Lopez, who santly texting her. When
afraid before that person O’Neal fell to the ground. on police, striking the ve- fired a total of more than she reported the texts to
retreated to the hospital to Witness James Gray looked hicle multiple times before 30 shots and had reloaded police, officers told her to
call 911 as well. out of the hospital window he ran into the hospital. Of- his weapon, put the gun to change her phone number
When Lopez confronted to see where the gun- ficers gave chase. his head and killed himself, and seek an order of pro-
her, the former couple ar- shots had come from and Once inside the medical police spokesman Anthony tection. Records show that
gued about O’Neal calling watched as Lopez “stood center, he kept firing at Guglielmi said. she sought the order but
off the engagement, and over her and shot her three officers and at one point Investigators said they not whether she ultimately
Lopez demanded that she more times,” he told report- turned and fired at Dayna found nothing to indicate received one, Guglielmi
return the engagement ers. Less, a first-year resident in that Lopez had a criminal said.q

Monsanto appeals $78M verdict in California weed killer suit

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Agribusi- non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and presented at trial supported the Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014 at
ness giant Monsanto on Tuesday awarded him $289 million. conclusion that Roundup was a 42, and his doctor testified that he
appealed a $78 million verdict in Last month, Judge Suzanne Bola- substantial cause of Johnson’s has less than three years to live.
favor of a dying California man nos slashed that award to $78 mil- cancer. Monsanto is facing thousands of
who said the company’s widely lion. Monsanto had sought a new An email to a spokeswoman for similar lawsuits that claim glypho-
used Roundup weed killer was a trial or judgment in its favor. Johnson’s attorneys was not im- sate — the active ingredient in
major factor in his cancer. “We continue to believe that the mediately returned. Roundup — causes cancer.
The company filed a notice of liability verdict and reduced dam- Johnson, now 46, sprayed Round- Many government regulators
appeal in San Francisco Superior age award are not supported by up and a similar product at his have rejected a link between
Court challenging a jury verdict in the evidence at trial or the law,” job as a pest control manager at glyphosate and cancer. Mon-
favor of DeWayne Johnson. In Au- Bayer, which acquired Monsanto a San Francisco Bay Area school santo says hundreds of studies
gust, the jury unanimously found in June, said in a statement. district, according to his attorneys. have established that glyphosate
that Roundup caused Johnson’s Bayer said none of the science He was diagnosed with non- is safe.q