Funeral Set For Chicago Cop Killed In Mercy Hospital Shooting

DES PLAINES, IL — Funeral services have been set for the Chicago police officer who was killed Monday during a shootout at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center on the Near South Side. Ofc. Samuel Jimenez, 28, was one of four people who died in the shooting, which began as a domestic argument in the hospital's parking lot.

Visitation for Samuel Jimenez will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25, at Oehler Funeral Home, 2099 Miner St., Des Plaines, according to the funeral home. A funeral Mass will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26, at the St. Joseph Chapel of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine, 1170 N. River Road.

Jimenez was shot and critically wounded in the neck Monday during an exchange of gunfire with Juan Lopez, 32, at the hospital, according to authorities. Lopez had already shot his fiancée, Dr. Tamara O'Neal, a 38-year-old emergency physician, when Jimenez and his partner arrived at the scene.

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The officer was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center following the shooting, and he was later pronounced dead. Dayna Less, a first-year pharmacy resident, also was fatally shot as she stepped out of a hospital elevator. Lopez took his own life after he was shot in the stomach during his shootout with police.

Jimenez had joined the force in 2017, and he had finished a probationary period with the department in August. The father of three had graduated from Chicago's Foreman High School and Northeastern Illinois University, and he and his wife were set to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary in December.

Jimenez is the second Chicago police officer to have been killed in the line of duty this year. That total is largest the department has seen since five officers were slain in 2010.

On Feb. 13, Cmdr. Paul Bauer, 53, was shot multiple times outside the Thompson Center while trying to help tactical officers apprehend Shomari Legghette, a 44-year-old career criminal who had fled officers looking to question him, according to authorities. Legghette, who was wearing body armor at the time of the shooting, faces first-degree murder and other charges stemming from the fatal shooting of the 31-year veteran cop.

The Chicago Police Memorial Foundation has raised $60,000 for Jimenez's family, and the fund will cover any expenses connected to for his children's education, according to ABC 7 News. Donations to Jimenez's family can be made online to the 100 Club of Chicago, which helps the families of police officers and firefighters who die in the line of duty.

Mercy Hospital also has set up an online fundraising campaign to help the families of O'Neal and Less.

Slain Chicago police Ofc. Samuel Jimenez (Photo via Chicago Police Department)