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Police officer, gunman and 2 others dead after Chicago hospital attack

CHICAGO - A Chicago police officer and two other people were killed in an attack at a South Side hospital Monday afternoon that sent medical personnel and police scrambling through stairwells and even the nursery in search of victims and the shooter before he was found dead.

Officer Samuel Jimenez, on the force since early 2017, was found in the lobby of Mercy Hospital & Medical Center on South Michigan Avenue around 3:20 p.m. CST, a police spokesman said.

The suspect, apparently shot in the head, was also found inside the hospital, as was a third person. The fourth person, apparently the gunman's girlfriend, had been repeatedly shot outside.

The shooting began after the gunman confronted his girlfriend outside the hospital in Bronzeville, possibly over a "broken engagement," sources said. The gunman shot the woman at least three times, then stood over

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