Fog Blog Chicago Shooting Log:
CHICAGO MERCY HOSPITAL SHOOTER WAS DISLIKED AMONG HIS FIRE ACADEMY TRAINING GROUP!....e gunman in this week’s mass shooting at Mercy Hospital & Medical Center was a “disliked classmate” among his fellow Chicago fire academy trainees and was described as being “perverted” in the way he presented himself, according to an investigation into the man’s alleged mistreatment of women as he trained to be a firefighter about five years ago.Records released Friday afternoon by City Hall show how the Fire Department’s internal affairs division investigated Juan Lopez on allegations he purposely bumped into or hit at least one female classmate during his two-month stint at the academy in 2014. Lopez ended up being fired before the probe was concluded because he stopped showing up for work.Authorities say Lopez killed Chicago police Officer Samuel Jimenez, 28; emergency room doctor Tamara O’Neal, 38; and pharmacist Dayna Less, 24, on Monday afternoon at Mercy Hospital, firing about 40 gunshots before dying in a shootout with a SWAT officer. The 32-year-old Lopez opened fire at the hospital after confronting O’Neal, his ex-fiancee, to get his engagement ring back.