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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Earlier remarked as &#8216;the next mass shooter&#8217;, Maryland man left f</strong><strong>ive dead in &#8216;targeted attack&#8217; at media house in Annapolis, Thursday afternoon </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, was arrested at the scene and has now been charged with five counts of first-degree murder</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Ramos stormed the newsroom and</strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong> opened fire Maryland&#8217;s Capital Gazette newsroom on June 28</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>New details reveal he barricaded the escape routes before shooting through the glass front door </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The gunman had been convicted of harassing his former high school classmate, which the paper had written about the case</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Ramos reportedly, had stalked ex-classmate, got her fired and forced her to move state then began vendetta against the newspaper that exposed him</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Police say the newspaper had received threats on social media prior to the deadly shooting </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>His victim in the harassment incident has just revealed that s</strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>he warned police five years ago that he would be &#8216;the next mass shooter&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Ramos had unsuccessfully sued the newspaper and one of its former reporters in 2013 for defamation, he lost on the appeal as well </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Ramos victims include Rob Hiaasen, 59, assistant editor and columnist and 61-year-old editorial page editor Gerald Fischman </strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Other journalists killed are Staff writer John McNamara, 56, community correspondent Wendi Winters, 65 and Rebecca Smith, 34,, a sales assistant</span></strong></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-295453" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Jarrod-Ramos-8.png" alt="Jarrod Ramos 8.png" width="692" height="429" /><strong>Alleged shooter, Jarrod W. Ramos seen [right] in his mugshot from Thursday has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder</strong></h6>
<p>After a deranged gunman blasted his way into the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis with a shotgun Thursday afternoon,five employees of the newspaper lay dead and several more were critically injured, authorities said.<br />
Journalists dived under their desks and pleaded for help on social media. One reporter described the scene as a “war zone.” A photographer said he jumped over a dead colleague and fled for his life.<br />
The victims were identified as Rob Hiaasen, 59, a former feature writer for The Baltimore Sun who joined the Capital Gazette in 2010 as an assistant editor and columnist; Wendi Winters, 65, a community correspondent who headed special publications; Gerald Fischman, 61, the editorial page editor; John McNamara, 56, a staff writer who had covered high school, college and professional sports for decades; and Rebecca Smith, 34, a sales assistant hired in November.<br />
Two others were injured in the attack that began about 2:40 p.m. at the Capital Gazette offices at 888 Bestgate Road in Annapolis.</p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-295445" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Rob-Hiaasen-left-and-Gerald-Fischman-1.png" alt="Rob Hiaasen [left] and Gerald Fischman 1.png" width="695" height="372" /><strong>Victims: [Left] Rob Hiaasen, 59, assistant editor and columnist, and [right] 61-year-old editorial page editor Gerald Fischman</strong><br />
<strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-295446" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John-McNamara-left-Wendi-Winters-center-and-Rebecca-Smith-right-1.png" alt="John McNamara, [left], Wendi Winters, [center], and Rebecca Smith, [right] 1.png" width="712" height="295" />[Left] Staff writer John McNamara, 56, [center], Wendi Winters, 65, community correspondent, head of special publications and [right] Rebecca Smith, 34,, a sales assistant </strong></h6>
<p>Police took a suspect into custody soon after the shootings. He was identified as Jarrod W. Ramos, a 38-year-old Laurel man with a long-standing grudge against the paper.<br />
Ramos was charged with five counts of first-degree murder, according to online court records. He did not have an attorney listed; a bail review hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday in Annapolis.<br />
“This was a targeted attack on the Capital Gazette,” said Anne Arundel County Deputy Police Chief William Krampf. “This person was prepared today to come in. He was prepared to shoot people.”<br />
Local, state and federal law enforcement officials cordoned off the Laurel apartment complex listed as the address for Ramos Thursday evening.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-295449" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Jarrod-Ramos-7.png" alt="Jarrod Ramos 7.png" width="650" height="666" /><strong>Gunman Jarrod Ramos [L-R]has been charged with murder after his mass shooting spree Thursday in Annapolis, Maryland which left five people dead</strong></h6>
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<div id="articleIconLinksContainer" data-preferred-shared-network-enabled="">The gunman who murdered five people at a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, had been flagged up to police as &#8216;the next mass shooter&#8217; by a woman he obsessively stalked &#8211; and had a vendetta against the publication because they exposed his perverted campaign of harassment.</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The gunmans’ dispute with the Capital Gazette began in July 2011 when a columnist wrote about a criminal harassment case against him.<br />
Jarrod W. Ramos&#8217; harassment of the woman, one of his former high school classmates, had been the subject of a 2011 article in the Capital Gazette, which would later see him sue the newspaper.<br />
He brought a defamation suit against the columnist and the organization’s editor and publisher. A court ruled in the Capital Gazette’s favor, and an appeals court upheld the ruling.<br />
After the unsuccessful lawsuit, and years of posting threats against the newspaper and its staff on social media, the 38-year-old opened fire in their newsroom on Thursday afternoon. He was remanded without bail during his court appearance Friday.<br />
Ramos&#8217; initial stalking of his former classmate had begun with a <a class="class" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/facebook/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook </a>message of thanks for being &#8216;the only person ever to say hello or be nice to him in school&#8217;, and escalated into a harassment campaign which saw her forced to change her name and leave the state.<br />
The woman told a <a class="class" href="http://www.wbaltv.com/article/shooting-reported-at-annapolis-building-housing-capital-gazette/21990668" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">WBAL TV</a> reporter that she had become so frightened of Ramos that she had to move three times and now sleeps with a gun, adding that he is a &#8216;f***ing nut job&#8217;.<br />
Neither the columnist who wrote the story, Eric Hartley, nor the editor and publisher, Thomas Marquardt, are still employed by the Capital Gazette. They were not present during the shootings.</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-295454" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/jarrod-Ramos-tweet-1.jpg" alt="jarrod Ramos tweet 1.jpg" width="680" height="234" /><img class="alignnone wp-image-295455" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/jarrod-Ramos-tweet-2.jpg" alt="jarrod Ramos tweet 2.jpg" width="673" height="232" />Jarrod Ramos had threatened the Gazette on social media high school classmate he was convicted of stalking has now revealed that she warned police five years ago that he would be &#8216;the next mass shooter&#8217;</strong></h6>
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Ramos appears to have carefully planned his attack to ensure maximum casualties, according to new details which emerged today. Before he burst into the newsroom, Ramos went to the back of the Capital Gazette building and barricaded the backdoor, shutting off a potential escape route for his targets, authorities said.<br />
He also had a backpack full of smoke bombs, then walked round to the front entrance and opened fire, shattering the glass front door. He then deployed one of the smoke bombs, masking his entrance and adding to the fear and confusion of staff.<br />
Most of the staff were at their desks and editors were in their offices when Jarrod, armed with a shotgun, entered the open office and began shooting.<br />
&#8216;He was going down our newsroom, starting from the front and just continually shooting people,&#8217; crime reporter Phil Davis said.<br />
Some staffers tried to escape through the back door found it had been blocked by Ramos, according to <a class="class" href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/us/inside-capital-gazette-newsroom-shooting/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CNN</a> They turned arround and joined colleagues hiding under their desks and behind filing cabinets.</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-295456" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Jarrod-Ramos-9.png" alt="Jarrod Ramos 9.png" width="659" height="430" /><strong>Ramos [L-R] repeatedly tweeted at the newspaper from his Twitter account, which used the handle @EricHartleyFrnd &#8211; the Capital Gazette reporter who wrote the initial story</strong></h6>
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<p class="imageCaption">Reporter John McNamara, however, refused to give up and kept trying to open the door. He was gunned down and killed trying to escape.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Police said the suspect used “smoke grenades” in the attack. They said 170 people were inside at the time.<br />
Phil Davis, a Capital crime reporter who was in the building at the time of the shooting, said multiple people were shot as he and others hid under their desks. He said there was a single male gunman.<br />
“Gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees,” he wrote on Twitter. “Can’t say much more and don’t want to declare anyone dead, but it’s bad.”<br />
“There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you’re under your desk and then hear the gunman reload.”</p>
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<div class="trb_em_r" data-role="lightbox_metadata">Davis later told The Sun said it “was like a war zone” — a scene that would be “hard to describe for a while.”<br />
“I’m a police reporter. I write about this stuff — not necessarily to this extent, but shootings and death — all the time,” he said. “But as much as I’m going to try to articulate how traumatizing it is to be hiding under your desk, you don’t know until you’re there and you feel helpless.”<br />
Davis said he and others were hiding under their desks when the shooter stopped firing. Then police arrived and surrounded the shooter.<br />
Photographer Paul Gillespie had finished editing photos from one assignment and was preparing for the next when he heard shots behind him and the newsroom’s glass doors shatter.</div>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-295380" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Shooting-at-Capital-Gazette-4.jpg" alt="Shooting at Capital Gazette 4" width="1250" height="703" /><strong>A witness said the chaos at the Gazette building in Annapolis, MD Thursday felt like a &#8216;war zone&#8217;</strong></h6>
<p>He heard another shot, he said, dived under a co-worker’s desk “and curled up as small as I could.”<br />
“I dove under that desk as fast as I could, and by the grace of God, he didn’t look over there,” he said. “I was curled up, trying not to breathe, trying not to make a sound, and he shot people all around me.”<br />
Gillespie said he heard one colleague scream “No!,” then a shot. Then another colleague’s voice, and another shot. He could hear the gunman approaching his hiding place.<br />
“I kept thinking, ‘I can’t believe I’m going to die. I can’t believe this.’ ” Gillespie said.<br />
But the gunman passed him, he said, and continued to shoot. Eventually, there was a lull in the shots. Gillespie stood and ran for the exit, through the shattered glass, jumping over the body of a colleague he believed was dead as another shot rang out in his direction.<br />
He ran to a nearby bank and screamed for people to call the cops.<br />
“I feel like I should be helping to cover it,” he said, “but I’m a mess.”<br />
Authorities said police responded to the scene within a minute of the shooting.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-295437" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Maryland-Gazette-1.png" alt="Maryland Gazette 1" width="677" height="384" /><strong>The Capital Gazette newsroom was one of the oldest in the nation</strong></h6>
<p>“If they were not there as quickly as they were, it could have been a lot worse,&#8221; Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley said.<br />
Officials at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore confirmed that the hospital was treating at least one victim. County Executive Steve Schuh said others were being treated at Anne Arundel Medical Center.<br />
Loren Farquhar, a medical center spokeswoman, said the hospital received two patients, both with minor injuries not from gunfire.<br />
The injured employees were identified as Rachael Pacella, a reporter who covers education and the Naval Academy, and Janel Cooley, a sales representative who covers downtown Annapolis. Both were treated and released.<br />
A spokeswoman for the Baltimore Sun Media Group said the company was “deeply saddened” by the shooting.<br />
“Our thoughts and prayers are with our colleagues and their families,” spokeswoman Renee Mutchnik said. “Our immediate focus is on providing support and resources for all our employees and cooperating with the authorities as this situation is still under investigation.”<br />
Police in SWAT gear carrying assault rifles cordoned off the area around the newsroom and closed Bestgate Road.<br />
Jimmy DeButts, an editor, wrote on Twitter that he was “devastated and heartbroken.”<br />
He praised his colleagues’ work.<br />
“There are no 40-hour weeks, no big paydays — just a passion for telling stories from our community,” DeButts wrote. “We keep doing more with less. We find ways to cover high school sports, breaking news, tax hikes, school budgets &; local entertainment. We are there in times of tragedy. We do our best to share the stories of people, those who make our community better. Please understand, we do all this to serve our community.”<br />
Gov. Larry Hogan wrote on Twitter that he was “absolutely devastated to learn of this tragedy in Annapolis.”</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-295419" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Police-and-federal-agents-gathered-late-Thursday-outside-the-address-of-38-year-old-Jarrod-W.-Ramos-who-is-being-held-as-the-suspect-in-the-deadly-shooting-at-Capital-Gazette-.jpg" alt="Police and federal agents gathered late Thursday outside the address of 38-year-old Jarrod W. Ramos, who is being held as the suspect in the deadly shooting at Capital Gazette," width="750" height="422" /><strong>Security agents surround the suspect&#8217;s home during a search on Thursday</strong></h6>
<p>Maryland House Speaker Michael E. Busch, who has represented Annapolis in the House of Delegates since 1987, called the Capital Gazette “the voice of the community.”<br />
“This is a shocker,” Busch said. “Over the years, a lot of these people become friends. They do their job, you do your job, and you respect them for it. A lot of good writers have come out of there.”<br />
The Capital Gazette is one of 30 tenants in the building.</p>
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Five dead in ‘targeted attack’ at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis – Jarrod Ramos, 38, Maryland man who once sued the paper charged with murder
