At approximately 2:30pm EDT a gunman entered the offices of Baltimore Sun subsidiary Capital Gazette in Annapolis Maryland. According to media reporting: •5 fatalities, •numerous victims shot; •shooter captured by police; Report: •white male, in his late 30’s; shotgun used. Suspect identified as 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos, who unsuccessfully sued the Capital Gazette for defamation in 2012.
With the suspect named as 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos, a surname that generally works against the preferred narrative [Twitter Here], the media engineers will likely begin to avoid further exhaustive coverage: From 2015:
Maryland’s second-highest court last week upheld a ruling in favor of Capital-Gazette Communications, a former reporter and a former publisher accused of defamation.
Jarrod Ramos of Laurel made the defamation claim in Prince George’s County Circuit Court in 2012 after a 2011 column by then-Capital staff writer Eric Hartley about Ramos’ guilty plea to criminal harassment. (link)
People being evacuated during an active shooter situation at Capital Gazette in Annapolis https://t.co/z2363ITAIF #fox5dc pic.twitter.com/gSac8uLfiZ
— FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) June 28, 2018
Massive police response to shooting in my newsroom in Annapolis. @capgaznews pic.twitter.com/M1Bjwa0mMh
— Joshua McKerrow (@joshuamckerrow) June 28, 2018
Several people fatally shot at newspaper office in Annapolis, according to media reports pic.twitter.com/NVy0VzWKsc
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 28, 2018
Police response for shooting in my newsroom. @capgaznews. pic.twitter.com/0O1LtlXdps
— Joshua McKerrow (@joshuamckerrow) June 28, 2018
#BREAKING: City spokeswoman: 1 shooter in custody after shooting at building housing Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis. (via @AP) https://t.co/moXBM0fkPj pic.twitter.com/OmrdA6Avqm
— 7News DC (@7NewsDC) June 28, 2018
MARYLAND: CBS: The shooter arrested at Capital Gazette is refusing to ID himself to police. he is a white male in his 20's. He used a shotgun.
— KolHaolam (@KolHaolam) June 28, 2018
BREAKING: City spokeswoman: 1 shooter in custody after shooting at building housing Maryland newspaper.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 28, 2018
Suspect in Maryland newspaper shooting is a white male in his 20s who was armed with a shotgun, sources say; his name is not yet known – CBS
— BNO News (@BNONews) June 28, 2018