New Hampshire Hospital Shooter Was Banned From Having Guns, Court Documents Say

CBS Boston

November 24, 2023

CONCORD, N.H. - John Madore, the man who shot and killed a security guard at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital in Concord last week, was not allowed to have guns, ammunition, or any other weapons following an arrest in 2016, according to court records.

At that time, police seized an assault-style rifle and 9 mm handgun from Madore. Madore, 33, who was arrested in Strafford on assault and reckless conduct charges, was later involuntarily admitted at New Hampshire Hospital in Concord, according to records. The charges were dismissed in 2017 following a competency evaluation that remains sealed.

Investigators said the gunman rented this U-Haul and left it idling before the shooting at New Hampshire Hospital on Nov. 17, 2023/CBS Boston

Those guns were not the same ones seized in 2016, Michael Garrity, a spokesperson for the New Hampshire attorney general's office, confirmed in a statement late Wednesday. The guns used in 2016 remain in the custody of the Strafford Police Department, he said.

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