Man who shot 2 in Hampton Beach was Navy sailor

The man who shot and wounded two people in Hampton, New Hampshire, on Sunday before dying by suicide was an active-duty sailor in the U.S. Navy, law enforcement officials announced Monday.

Police responded to Ocean Boulevard in Hampton Beach in the early morning of July 5 after reports of a shooting, the office of New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella, speaking on behalf of New Hampshire State Police Col. Mark P. Hall and Hampton Police Chief Alexander Reno, previously said.

Officers found two people, a 23-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, who had been shot, the prosecutor said. The two remained hospitalized with their injuries as of Monday afternoon, Formella’s office said.

The district attorney previously said Hampton Police Department officers found a man a block away from the shooting victims who matched the description of the alleged shooter. Formella’s office said the man raised a gun and then shot himself, killing himself when an officer shot him.

Officials previously identified the shooter as Tyshawn Cooper, 21, and said he was a South Carolina resident.

But Formella’s office said Monday that Cooper was 28 and living in New Hampshire at the time of the shooting because of his assignment with the Navy.

Cooper was a submarine network information systems technician second class and assigned to the USS Hampton, prosecutors said. Hampton, a nuclear submarine, currently Subject to maintenance At the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine.

Formella’s office said the incident is under active investigation.

“The New Hampshire Department of Justice and the New Hampshire State Police are coordinating with their counterparts at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as they conduct their reviews of this incident,” his office wrote.

A spokesman for the US Navy’s Submarine Force said Monday evening that Navy officials are aware of the incident.

“We are deeply saddened by this event and offer our heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families,” the spokesman said. “The Navy is fully cooperating with the New Hampshire State Police, who are leading the investigation into the circumstances of the shooting.”