(Reuters) -An armed individual walked into the foyer of a state psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire on Friday and shot useless a guard earlier than a state police officer shot and killed the suspect, officers mentioned.
Nobody else was injured within the gun violence, which erupted at about 3:30 p.m. on the New Hampshire State Hospital in Harmony, the state capital, in keeping with state police Colonel Mark Corridor.
Addressing reporters at a later information briefing, Corridor declined to offer any details about the suspect. He mentioned investigators have been nonetheless making an attempt to establish the assailant.
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu wrote on social media that the sufferer was Bradley Haas, who was working safety on the hospital.
Lori Weaver, commissioner for New Hampshire’s Division of Well being and Human Providers, mentioned, “all patients and staff at the hospital are safe.”
Bomb squad officers have been additionally investigating a suspicious car on the hospital grounds, Corridor mentioned, with out elaborating.
The bloodshed unfolded shortly. Moments after the suspect entered the foyer and shot Haas, “a state trooper assigned to the hospital and in close proximity immediately engaged, shot and killed the suspect,” Corridor mentioned. “The entire incident was contained within the lobby of the hospital.”
Corridor mentioned extra officers have been on the scene inside minutes, including {that a} police academy commencement was happening on the encircling campus on the time.
The hospital is a safe psychiatric facility the place all guests should enter by steel detectors and a police officer is at all times on responsibility, in keeping with Manchester-based tv station WMUR-TV.
The 184-bed hospital is located on the grounds of a 120-acre workplace advanced that’s house to a number of state companies, together with Well being and Human Providers, the Division of Training and the Public Utility Fee, WMUR mentioned.
