Friend Upset He Can't Find Bathroom After Bringing Gunshot Victim to ER: Cops

A Chicago man grew irate when a nurse wouldn’t tell him where the bathroom was after he had dropped off a gunshot patient in the hospital emergency room, reports said.

Oak Lawn police responded to a disturbance at Advocate Christ Medical Center, 4440 W. 95th St., around 3:40 p.m. Dec. 11.

While enroute, officers were advised that a man who had been shot was brought to hospital in a private vehicle and the escorting party was getting violence, police said.

According to the report, when officers arrived hospital security had the escorting party, identified as Tommy D. Nichols, detained in handcuffs. Nichols was irate and continuing to yell loudly.

Security officers told police they were working near the front desk in the emergency room when the wounded man was brought into the hospital. Nichols continued screaming and cussing, police said.

Nichols was asked to leave the hospital two or three times. Security officers claim that Nichols took a fighting stance and threatened to “pop” them one if they “didn’t get out of my face,” reports said.

Both security officers took Nichols to the ground and put him in handcuffs until police arrived. He was taken into custody.

Oak Lawn officers met with Chicago police, who stated that the wounded man was shot near 83rd Street and Damen Avenue while the vehicle was still moving.

Nichols was brought to the Oak Lawn police station. He allegedly told officers that he had been sitting in the backseat of a car behind the driver. Nichols’ friend who’d been shot was sitting in the front passenger seat.

Police said Nichols denied clenching his fist and telling hospital security officers he was going to pop them. While at the hospital, Nichols told police he became “enraged” when a nurse at the reception desk would not direct him to the bathroom.

Nichols said he was upset because he had been shot at and did not mean any harm to the hospital security officers.

Police charged Nichols with aggravated assault and criminal trespassing to property.