Hospital Shooter Kept Gun Under Pillow: Ex-Wife In Court Docs

CHICAGO — While Juan Lopez was planning to marry Dr. Tamara O’Neal, he faced legal battles with his ex-wife. She wanted him held in contempt for failing to pay child support for their 6-year-old son — nearly $6,000.

In court documents she said Lopez told the boy his mom was ‘evil and dark.’ Her stated grounds for divorce: “constant infidelity and abuse.”

Those abuses were described in a request protection order saying Lopez “slept with a pistol under his pillow” and that she feared her safety was in jeopardy.

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Ziff Sistrunk, of Crosses for the Losses, places memorials outside of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center where four people were shot and killed Monday, Nov. 19 (Photo by Scott Olson | Getty Images)