Five people were killed in the shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.
Jarrod Ramos blasted his way through Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, on Thursday, killing at least five people in one of the deadliest attacks recorded on a US media outlet. Ramos fired through a glass door, looked for victims and then sprayed the newsroom with gunfire, police and a witness said.
Capital Gazette runs multiple newspapers out of its Annapolis office and the group includes one of the oldest newspapers in the United States, The Gazette, which traces its origins back to 1727.
Acting police chief of the Anne Arundel County Police Department William Krampf told a news conference that Capital Gazette assistant editor Rob Hiaasen, 59, was among the victims. Wendi Winters, 65, Rebecca Smith, 34, Gerald Fischman, 61, and John McNamara were also killed, he said. Smith was a sales assistant and the others were journalists.
"This was a targeted attack on the Capital Gazette," Krampf said. "This person was prepared to shoot people. His intent was to cause harm."
Here is what we know about Jarrod Ramos:
Police said the suspect in the newspaper shooting is Jarrod Ramos, 38, of Laurel, Maryland.
The police had trouble identifying the suspect as he had appeared to have damaged his fingertips to try to avoid detection and was refusing to cooperate with law enforcement.
Ramos has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder in the shooting.
The alleged shooter had a history with the newspaper and had filed a suit against it in 2012, which he lost.
According to Time, the Capital, in a 2011 story, identified Ramos as an employee of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics with a degree in computer engineering and no previous criminal record.
In 2012, Ramos brought a defamation lawsuit against Eric Hartley, formerly a staff writer and columnist with publication The Capital, and Thomas Marquardt, then editor and publisher of The Capital, according to a court filing.
The suit centered on a July 2011 story that covered a criminal harassment case against Ramos. The story told the account of a woman, a former high school classmate of Ramos with whom he had tried to reconnect with online, who had accused him of tormenting her.
In 2015, Maryland second-highest court upheld a ruling in favour of the Capital Gazette and a former reporter who were accused by Ramos of defamation.
According to a legal document, the article contended that Ramos had harassed a woman on Facebook and that he had pleaded guilty to criminal harassment. The court agreed that the contents of the article were accurate and based on public records, the document showed.
Ramos said on Twitter that he had set up an account to defend himself, and wrote in his bio that he was suing people in Anne Arundel County and "making corpses of corrupt careers and corporate entities."
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