Capital Gazette Shooting: Five Killed In ‘Targeted’ Attack

Capital Gazette Shooting
Five people have been killed and two others injured after a gunman opened fire in the newsroom of a Maryland newspaper.

The attacker walked into the office of Capital Gazette with smoke grenades and a shotgun in what police called a “targeted attack”.

“This person was prepared to shoot people. His intent was to cause harm,” acting police chief of the Anne Arundel County Police Department William Krampf told a news conference.

Among the dead were four journalists and one staffer.

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The suspect, identified by local media as Jarrod Ramos, was taken into custody. He had a long-running feud with The Capital newspaper and had sued journalists there for defamation.

Ramos filed a defamation lawsuit against Capital Gazette in 2012, after an earlier article had detailed a harassment charge to which he pleaded guilty in July 2011.

The attack has been described as one of deadliest recorded attacks on US media.