1 Person Killed in Shooting at U.S. Mental Hospital
A shooter opens fire, resulting in 1 person being killed in a shooting at a United States Mental Hospital. This happened in the state of New Hampshire, United States.
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| Police work at the scene of a shooting at New Hampshire Hospital on Friday (Photo: Geoff Forester/The Concord Monitor/AP) |
New Hampshire police official, Mark Hall said, as reported by AFP news agency, on Saturday (11/18/2023), the suspect entered the New Hampshire Hospital in Concord and shot dead one person in the hospital lobby on Friday (11/17) local time.
Shooter Shot Dead by Police
"A state trooper assigned to the hospital and nearby immediately sprang into action, shot and killed the suspect," he told a news conference, adding that the shooting only took place in the hospital lobby.
Hall did not identify the shooter or the victim.
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"There is no threat to the community, and there is no threat to patients or hospital staff."
New Hampshire Hospital in the state capital of Concord is a 185-bed inpatient facility that treats patients with acute mental illness.
Shootings are very common in the United States, a country with more firearms than its population. Efforts to suppress the spread of firearms in the country have always been met with stiff resistance.