Five dead, 20 injured in Maryland newsroom shooting

Monitoring Desk

ANNAPOLIS: At least five people were killed and 20 others were injured after a man armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades burst into a newspaper office in the US city of Annapolis on Thursday.

Police confirmed that the shooting was carried out by a white adult male resident of Maryland State and he was taken into custody.

An employee of the daily newspaper told that the horrifying story when a gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees.

Acting police chief, Bill Krampf, told that there were five fatalities and two superficial injuries.

He identified the dead as four journalists — Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara and Wendi Winters — and sales assistant Rebecca Smith.

The Baltimore Sun — which owns the Capital Gazette — identified the suspected shooter as Jarrod Ramos, who it said had a long-running dispute with the newspaper over a 2011 story “that covered a criminal harassment case against him.”

Krampf said that police did not yet know the shooter’s motive, but “we know that there were threats sent to the Gazette through social media.”

“We’re trying to confirm what account that was and we’re trying to confirm who actually sent them,” Krampf added.

Chase Cook, a reporter at the newspaper, said the shooting would not stop The Capital — the local print edition — from going to press.

President Donald Trump, who has been at loggerheads with much of the media since taking office, tweeted a message of support and said that my thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Thank you to all of the First responders who are currently on the scene.

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