The shooter is dead and one innocent is injured following a Friday afternoon shooting at the New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord.
Update: The individual wounded in the New Hampshire State Hospital shooting succumbed to his wounds and has been identified as 63-year-old Bradley Haas. He was the former police chief of Franklin, New Hampshire, and was working at the hospital as a security guard.
The hospital is for psychiatric treatment.
State Police Col. Mark Hall said the shooting was contained in the front lobby of the hospital, WMUR reported.
No patients were injured in the incident.
New Hampshire State Police tweeted about the incident shortly after 4 p.m.:
Roughly half of an hour later, New Hampshire’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management tweeted that the incident was over:
The Associated Press noted that the New Hampshire State Hospital “has roughly 185 beds…[and] is the only state-run psychiatric hospital for adults in New Hampshire.”
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