An emergency room doctor and two others were killed when Juan Lopez opened fire at a Chicago hospital following an argument.

Dr. Tamara O’Neal was arguing with her ex-fiancé at Chicago's Mercy Hospital on Monday when he pulled out a gun and shot her. According to witness Steve Mixon, an emergency room clerk, Lopez called asking for O’Neal earlier that day, but she blew him off.

“He called and asked to speak with his fiancee,” Mixon told The Chicago Tribune. “And she said, ‘Oh, just tell him I’m in with a patient.’”

When Mixon was leaving for work, he saw the fateful argument and attempted to intervene.

“I look up, and I see her being harassed by some gentleman. She was trying to avoid him and move around. And when she saw me, she waved for me to come that way,” he continued.

He didn’t make it to her before Lopez starting shooting. Mixon said Lopez shot O’Neal a few more times after she fell. James Gray, another witness, counted three additional shots.

After he shot O’Neal, Lopez entered the hospital and began to shoot indiscriminately.

"Once he entered, he just started shooting at random," Gray told NBC Chicago. "It looked like he was turning and pointing at people at random."

When police officers arrived at the scene, the gunman turned his attention to them. A shootout ensued, and Officer Samuel Jimenez was fatally wounded. Dayna Less, a pharmacy assistant, was killed as she exited an elevator during the battle.

Lopez was later found dead of a gunshot wound to the head. It is unclear who shot him.

O’Neal was an emergency room physician who was dedicated to her work, her church and making the world a better place according to those who knew her.

"She was 38 years old, completely dedicated to her church," Patrick Connor, chairman of the emergency department at Mercy Hospital, told ABC7. "She never worked on Sundays. She led her choir in her church, and she fundraised every year for disadvantaged children for first, second and third-grade children all their school supplies."

"She’s one of the sweetest nieces that I have," O'Neal's aunt, Delores Davis, said. "She was also dedicated to her church."

Mixon remembered the young doctor as “a sweetheart, just a sweetheart. What a fireball.”

John Purakal, an emergency doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center, knew O’Neal and was one of the physicians who tried to save her life. Her death had a profound effect on him.

I knew her, trained with her, saved lives with her and tonight, tried to save her life. Tonight, I broke down in front of my coworkers when we lost her, and tonight I held hands with her mother in prayer. Tonight, we lost a beautiful, resilient, passionate doc. Keep singing, TO. pic.twitter.com/NLQpX1rZIn

— John Purakal, MD (@JohnPurakal) November 20, 2018

This shooting comes two weeks after the NRA told doctors to “stay in their lane” regarding the conversation around gun violence in this country. Doctors across the country didn’t forget about those harsh words.

The NRA told doctors to stay in their lane and now there’s a shooting at Mercy Hospital in Chicago. Doctors can be patients and victims of gun violence too. We’re all in this together as human beings who just want to live and come home to our families. Enough is enough.

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) November 19, 2018

This is the face of the amazing emergency physician Dr Tamara ONeal, at work today, before she was murdered.

Tonight, hold her, her family, & our colleagues at #MercyHospital
#UIC in your hearts.

And tomorrow, pledge to fight for women like her. Because #ThisIsOurLane. #Enough
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— Megan Ranney MD MPH (@meganranney) November 20, 2018

today, the EM family mourns the loss of one of our own to #gunviolence and #intimatepartnerviolence. #thisisourlane and we must use it – take a moment in Tamara's memory today to call your representatives, get your voice heard, and encourage our country to enact change.

— Rachel Gartland (@rae_gartland) November 20, 2018

Hey @NRA : look at them. Say their names. Sam, Tamara, Dayna. People working hard to heal and serve others, shot down in a place of healing. How dare you tell doctors we can’t speak out about what we see in our own house. #ThisIsOurLane
@ThisIsOurLane
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— Stephanie Bonne (@scrubbedin) November 20, 2018

Gun Violence is not just a statistic.

These people are fathers daughters, sisters……Last night we lost:

Tamara O’Neal – A Doctor
Samuel Jimenez – A Police Officer
Dayna Less – A Pharmacy Resident

Are you really still asking if @ThisIsOurLane
#ThisIsOurLane
#MercyHospital
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— Joseph Sakran (@JosephSakran) November 20, 2018

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