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John Madore has been identified as the suspect who shot and killed a security officer Friday at New Hampshire Hospital.
33 year old John Madore shot and killed Bradley, a New Hampshire Department of Safety security officer.
He was said to be transient but had recently lived in the Concord area.
Timeline of the NH Hospital shooting
At 3:38 p.m. Friday, New Hampshire State Police dispatch received a call for an active shooter at New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord, state police Col. Mark Hall said in a press conference on Friday night.
Upon entering the lobby, Hall said the suspect shot one individual, and a state trooper assigned to the hospital and in close proximity immediately engaged and shot and killed the suspect.
He said the entire incident was contained in the lobby of the hospital.
The state trooper who shot the gunman was not wounded in the attack.
Hall said Concord police, Concord fire and EMS, State Office Complex police and the Merrimack County Sheriff’s Department assisted state police at the shooting scene.
What was the motive?
The motive of the shooter remains unclear.
“Those are things we’re going to find out during the investigation,” Hall said.
He said he is not able to say what kind of weapon the gunman used or how many shots were fired.
Who was Bradley Haas?
Bradley Haas was a 63 years old state Department of Safety Security Officer.
Haas worked as a young man as a military police officer for the U.S. Army for three years before then serving in the Franklin Police Department for 28 years, according to the AG statement.
He started as a patrol officer before rising to chief of the department.
Bradley Haas lived in Franklin, a small town about 20 miles from Concord.
