Iran Press/ America: Thousands of people lose their lives or are wounded by gunshot attacks in the US yearly. Based on official statistics, there are around 270 to 300 million guns, which is almost one gun for every American.
In 2020 alone, 19,384 people were killed in gun homicides, showing a 35 percent increase from the previous year and the country's most significant one-year rise in gun homicides.
The shooting occurred entirely in the lobby of the hospital, according to New Hampshire State Police Director Col. Mark Hall.
The suspect shot one person, and a responding state trooper assigned to the hospital shot and killed the suspect, Hall said.
Police said a 63-year-old security officer died after being shot by a gunman who walked into the New Hampshire Hospital in Concord on Friday afternoon.
Bradley Haas, of Franklin, a New Hampshire Department of Safety security officer, was shot in the line of duty while working security at the hospital’s front lobby entrance, the Attorney General's Office said.
First responders rushed to the New Hampshire Hospital off Clinton Street in the state capital city at 3:38 p.m. 219
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