On Friday, a shooter opened fire on a psychiatric hospital in the northern US state of New Hampshire, killing one person before he was killed by police, according to police.
The state police Colonel Mark Hall said that the suspect entered the New Hampshire Hospital in Concord and shot one person in the lobby.
“A state trooper assigned to the hospital and in close proximity immediately engaged, shot and killed the suspect,” he said during a news conference, stating that the attack was confined to the hospital lobby.
Hall did not name the shooter or the victim.
“There is no threat to the public, and there was no threat to the patients or staff at the hospital,” he said.
The New Hampshire Hospital in Concord, New Hampshire, is a 185-bed inpatient facility that treats patients with acute mental illness.
In the United States, where there are more guns than people, shootings occur much more often and any attempts to stop their spread are always met with stiff resistance.