Medical scholarship honors Chicago doctor murdered by her ex-boyfriend
Tamara O’Neal, the slain Chicago doctor who was killed at her job by a vengeful ex, is gone but not forgotten by her medical classmates who are honoring her with a scholarship fund.
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The Tamara O’Neal MD Scholarship Fund will be awarded to first-year University of Illinois’ Urban Health Program on behalf of the well-respected doctor.
“Tamara was always a person who lived to help people, and to be able to pass that on in the form of this scholarship fund to help someone else, then Tamara still lives,” her father, Tom O’Neal, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
“She used to call me up and tell me to say an extra prayer for her when she had a big exam … now I’ll say an extra prayer for the person who gets this scholarship.”
So far, the group has raised $68,000 to go towards the scholarship.
“Their ultimate goal is to raise enough money so this will be an ongoing scholarship from here on out,” Tom O’Neal said. “I thought that was pretty good.”
O’Neal was shot outside of the Chicago Hospital before the gunman entered the building firing shots as staff, doctors and patients ran for their lives.
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Witnesses said the gunman demanded his engagement ring back before opening fire.
O’Neal graduated from UIC College of Medicine graduate in 2014 and was a 2017 emergency medicine resident graduate, according to the outlet.
