Alleged killer of Capital Gazette employees had made repeated threats

Acting Police Chief William Krampf of Anne Arundel County said the gunman “looked for his victims” Thursday in the newsroom of The Capital Gazette in Annapolis. Another describes him as “recalcitrant”.

Jarrod Warren Ramos, swiftly arrested by police after the attack, was charged Friday with five counts of first-degree murder. She said to this day, she has always been afraid that Ramos would find her. An article by Hartley had contended that Ramos had harassed a woman on Facebook and he had pleaded guilty to criminal harassment.

Ramos sued the paper for defamation in 2012.

Police say they are a questioning the suspect, a white man in his late 30s, following Thursday’s attack on The Capital Gazette in Annapolis.

The suspect also had smoke grenades that he used when he entered the building, Krampf said, adding that two people suffered superficial wounds, possibly from broken glass. Authorities were forced to use face recognition technology to identify him because he had damaged his fingerprints.

“We won’t forget being called an enemy of the people”.

As a presidential candidate and since becoming president, Trump and his aides routinely have dismissed various reports by mainstream media outlets ― especially stories critical of him, as “fake news”.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump had earlier offered their condolences on Twitter.

Ramos so routinely sent profanity-laced tweets about the paper and its writers that retired publisher Tom Marquardt said he called police in 2013, telling his wife at the time, “This guy could really hurt us”. The account has tweeted several times about the paper and Hartley. Investigators were reviewing his postings and searching his apartment in Laurel, Maryland, for evidence on what prompted him to take deadly action.

Altomare said the shooter meant to “kill as many people as he could kill”.

Rob Hiaasen, 59, Wendi Winters, 65, Rebecca Smith, 34, Gerald Fischman, 61, and John McNamara were shot and killed.

Police said two others had minor injuries, and the newspaper later reported both were employees later released from a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Phil Davis, the paper’s crime reporter, hid under his desk while the shootings took place. Tronc is the parent company of The Baltimore Sun Media Group, which includes the Capital. “I am devastated”, reporter Danielle Ohl tweeted. “I don’t know what else to do except this”, reporter Chase Cook said Thursday.

‘Obviously, I’m disappointed you know.

Cowherd and others said they would remember Hiaasen for how he lived, rather than the way he died senselessly at the hands of a gunman twisted by hate and festering rage. “I think that’s probably why the unnamed, senior law enforcement source who wishes to remain anonymous said that, because they read “lag” as some sort of attempt on his part”.