UPDATED — Gunman Dead, One Innocent Injured in New Hampshire Hospital Shooting

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AWR Hawkins

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.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com

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